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AFP on Willingham Case

By Steve Hall

"Execution opponents hope Texas case will be US turning point," is the title of Lucile Malandain's Washington  datelined AFP report, via Google News.  Here's an excerpt:He was executed in Texas in 2004, convicted of setting a fire that killed his three children, but Todd Willingham could become the first proven case of an innocent man put to death by the state.Convicted at 24 of starting a fire that killed his three daughters, Willingham's case is now being reexamined, and opponents of capital punishment hope it could prove a turning point in the United States, where an average of 50 people a year are executed by lethal injection.Proving a convict's innocence is difficult, and doing so after a prisoner has been executed is extremely rare...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 08, 2009 (boomark / email).