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I read about Cameron Todd Willingham (none / 0) (#5)
by bjorn on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 12:14:51 PM EST
yesterday, the man who was executed in 2004 in Texas for a crime he allegedly committed in 1991.  About 10 months after he was executed, a report came out that showed no crime had actually been committed. He had been accused of arson and killing his three children. He argued right up to his death that he did not set the fire and tried to save his children.  The arson report conclusively demonstrated the fire had not been set deliberately. The new science was applied to another case on death row and the man was exonerated and released.  I don't know if Cameron Willingham was Black or white, but this is the first time I had seen a case where it was essentially proven that an innocent person had been executed.

What can you do that we haven't already done to get rid of the death penalty?

Sorry, I meant what can WE do! (none / 0) (#6)
by bjorn on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 12:15:43 PM EST


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