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A Catholic Perspective on Todd Willingham

By Steve Hall

Florida Catholic has the OpEd, "Innocent man?s execution shows shame of death penalty," from the Tennessee Register.The death penalty may have finally crossed a shameful line that, if there is any sense of reason or justice in American society, should bring the practice to a swift and final end. The state of Texas, despite all of the safeguards that proponents of the death penalty claim would prevent this from happening, may have executed an innocent man.A story in the Sept. 7 issue of The New Yorker details the case of Cameron Todd Willingham who was executed on Feb. 17, 2004, by lethal injection in the Texas death house at the state prison in Huntsville. Texas has made the most prolific use of the death penalty since its re?establishment in 1977...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 24, 2009 (boomark / email).