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Latest news on Cameron Todd Willingham case and debate over his guilt

By Douglas A. Berman

This new AP story provides the latest news on the Texas case which may provide an example of an innocent person who was executed.  Here is how it begins: David Martin is sickened by the suggestion that Texas executed an innocent man when Cameron Todd Willingham was put to death for setting a fire that killed his three children. The veteran defense attorney represented Willingham at trial.  He looked at all the evidence.  And he has no doubt that his client deserved to die.  "I never think about him, but I do think about those year-old babies crawling around in an inferno with their flesh melting off their bodies," Martin said. "I think that he was guilty, that he deserved death and that he got death." The 2004 execution, however, didn't end questions about the case...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 02, 2009 (boomark / email).