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Trial by fire
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Bob
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read the article. it's well short of a book.I read the first 8 pages of the article and then lost interest...........
Did I miss the groundbreaking evidence that he was convicted of a crime he didn't commit?
The arson investigator's testimony is what carries the most weight IMO - and he said the convicted man's story (which I found sketchy anyway) was completely wrong.
I can say with absolute certainty that one of my parents wouldn't have gotten dressed and run outside if the house was on fire, they knew we were inside, and they heard one of us screaming - they would have gone into our room and saved us (or died trying).
Bob
SoWal Insider
Texas resists family's effort to clear executed man's name - CNN.com Texas resists family's effort to clear executed man's name
By Matt Smith, CNN
November 9, 2009 10:03 p.m. EST
Ardmore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Cameron Todd Willingham's family here in Oklahoma never believed he set the fire that killed his three daughters.
"We could not even imagine it," his cousin, Patricia Cox, recounted recently. "That was completely ludicrous to us."
But 16 days after the fire, Willingham was arrested. And within a year, he was on death row. On February 17, 2004, he was strapped to a gurney in a Texas prison and given a lethal injection, proclaiming his innocence to the end.
The story of how Willingham -- Todd, to his family -- went from a home on a shady street in Ardmore to the death chamber is a tale of science and skull tattoos, of last-minute hopes raised and dashed. It is a story wrapped up in allegations that the governor who let the execution go forward is now trying to derail an investigation into whether Texas put an innocent man to death.
And in Ardmore, where Willingham's baby shoes still sit on a desk in the house where he grew up, the family that fought to save his life is still trying to clear his name.
"It's not over," Cox's sister, Judy Cavnar, said. "This is a long way from being over."....texas executed an innocent man
By Matt Smith, CNN
November 9, 2009 10:03 p.m. EST
Ardmore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Cameron Todd Willingham's family here in Oklahoma never believed he set the fire that killed his three daughters.
"We could not even imagine it," his cousin, Patricia Cox, recounted recently. "That was completely ludicrous to us."
But 16 days after the fire, Willingham was arrested. And within a year, he was on death row. On February 17, 2004, he was strapped to a gurney in a Texas prison and given a lethal injection, proclaiming his innocence to the end.
The story of how Willingham -- Todd, to his family -- went from a home on a shady street in Ardmore to the death chamber is a tale of science and skull tattoos, of last-minute hopes raised and dashed. It is a story wrapped up in allegations that the governor who let the execution go forward is now trying to derail an investigation into whether Texas put an innocent man to death.
And in Ardmore, where Willingham's baby shoes still sit on a desk in the house where he grew up, the family that fought to save his life is still trying to clear his name.
"It's not over," Cox's sister, Judy Cavnar, said. "This is a long way from being over."....texas executed an innocent man
scooterbug44
SoWal Expert
It may be a long way from over .................... but that doesn't mean he was wrongly executed.
In these days of CSI, NCIS, Bones, Law & Order etc. we think that there has to be an open and shut case with a ton of forensic evidence, but that is not reality.
What is the evidence that you think proves he was innocent?
Or at least provides reasonable doubt? Cuz' relatives refusing to believe a confessed wife beater killed their own kids isn't it.
In these days of CSI, NCIS, Bones, Law & Order etc. we think that there has to be an open and shut case with a ton of forensic evidence, but that is not reality.
What is the evidence that you think proves he was innocent?
Or at least provides reasonable doubt? Cuz' relatives refusing to believe a confessed wife beater killed their own kids isn't it.