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Doubt and the Death Penalty

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an essay at Huffington Post by Cy Vance, a candidate for Manhattan District Attorney.  LINKCameron Todd Willingham did not make a sympathetic defendant. He was accused of one of the worst types of crime we witness in our society (murdering his children in an intentionally-set fire). He had been on the wrong side of the law since his early teens, was behind on his bills and out of a job. The jury spent less time deliberating this case than it takes many of us to commute to work. Cameron Todd Willingham was put to death, declaring his innocence until a lethal injection silenced him.Yesterday, is was reported by the Chicago Tribune that a prominent fire scientist has told a state commission reviewing the case that fire investigators had no basis to rule the fire an arson -- opening up the very real possibility that Willingham was an innocent man when the state executed him...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 28, 2009 (boomark / email).