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Trial by Fire - Did Texas execute an innocent man?

By Steve Hall

That's the title of a major article in the September 7 issue of the New Yorker.  It's written by David Grann.  LINK  Here's the beginning of this must read:The fire moved quickly through the house, a one-story wood-frame structure in a working-class neighborhood of Corsicana, in northeast Texas. Flames spread along the walls, bursting through doorways, blistering paint and tiles and furniture. Smoke pressed against the ceiling, then banked downward, seeping into each room and through crevices in the windows, staining the morning sky.Buffie Barbee, who was eleven years old and lived two houses down, was playing in her back yard when she smelled the smoke. She ran inside and told her mother, Diane, and they hurried up the street; that?s when they saw the smoldering house and Cameron Todd Willingham standing on the front porch, wearing only a pair of jeans, his chest blackened with soot, his hair and eyelids singed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 31, 2009 (boomark / email).