An innocent man, Todd Willingham, was executed in Texas in 2004 new report shows.
From the Innocence Project web site:
An exhaustive new investigative report shows that Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas in 2004, was innocent. The report comes three years after the Innocence Project released analysis from some of the nation’s leading forensic experts who found that the central evidence against Willingham was not valid. The Innocence Project also obtained public records showing that Texas officials ignored this evidence in the days leading up to Willingham’s execution.
The Innocence Project is one of the charities that I financially support. I encourage you to do it as well.
Sign the petition to Governor Rick Perry and the State of Texas to acknowledge that the fire in the Cameron Todd Willingham case was not arson, therefore no crime was committed and on February 17, 2004, Texas executed an innocent man.
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I just read about this case in Time or Newsweek or something similar. What shocked me was to read that Supreme Court Justice Scalia put forth the following, that “[t]his court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is ‘actually’ innocent.” Really? I live in a country where you can execute an innocent man, but it's okay as long as you gave him a trial first? Does that let you sleep at night, Antonin? The death penalty in general, but especially cases like these, and the attempted justification of them, makes me ashamed to call myself an American.
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