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MA - The Execution of Cameron Willingham

View the article here 10/26/2009 By MICHAEL SNEDEKER "The only statement I want to make is that I am an innocent man convicted of a crime I did not commit. I have been persecuted for twelve years for something I did not do. From God?s dust I came and to dust I will return, so the Earth shall become my throne.? So spoke Cameron Todd Willingham just before the state of Texas killed him. Governor Rick Perry?s (Contact) abrupt dissolution of the Texas Forensic Science Commission on the eve of its long-awaited decision in the Cameron Todd Willingham case was an effort to cover up a state-sanctioned murder; days before Willingham?s execution, Perry knew or should have known how riddled with errors and mystical assumptions was the critical expert testimony purporting to show that Willingham had set fire to his own house, with his three young daughters inside...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on October 26, 2009 (boomark / email).