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More Commentary on Todd Willingham

By Steve Hall

Salon carries Len Kovarsky's essay, "Opposing the death penalty is not about innocence."In the last several weeks, two major events have reignited the controversy that engulfs capital adjudication in this country. First, the U.S. Supreme Court took a potentially significant step in expanding the role that federal courts play in superintending how states mete out the death penalty. Second, the New Yorker published a devastating article by David Grann about the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham, a man convicted and capitally sentenced for his children's murder on the basis of junk science and a mentally troubled jailhouse informant. Each of these events called attention to what the public perceives as our capital punishment system's signal failure -- its inability to ensure that those who are executed are actually guilty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 11, 2009 (boomark / email).