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Trial by Fire

Did Texas execute an innocent man?Cameron Todd Willingham in his cell on death row, in 1994. He insisted upon his innocence in the deaths of his children and refused an offer to plead guilty in return for a life sentence. Photograph by Ken Light.The fire moved quickly through the house, a one-story wood-frame structure in a working-class neighborhood of Corsicana, in northeast Texas. Flames spread along the walls, bursting through doorways, blistering paint and tiles and furniture. Smoke pressed against the ceiling, then banked downward, seeping into each room and through crevices in the windows, staining the morning sky.Buffie Barbee, who was eleven years old and lived two houses down, was playing in her back yard when she smelled the smoke...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on September 06, 2009 (boomark / email).