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More Willingham Commentary

By Steve Hall

"Exoneration comes too late," is the title of David Kaczynski's OpEd from the Albany Times Union.  He's the executive director of New Yorkers for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. Here's an extended excerpt:Five years after his execution in Texas, Cameron Todd Willingham is back in the news. A recent article in The New Yorker magazine establishes that evidence used to convict Willingham for setting a fire that killed his three children was based on junk science. In addition, the prosecution used a jailhouse snitch who lied to curry favor with the district attorney. Until his dying breath, Willingham insisted on his innocence. Now a careful review by one of the world's foremost arson experts has found that the fire was accidental...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 14, 2009 (boomark / email).