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: StandDown Texas Project

Error-Prone Death Penalty System Ensnares Innocent

By Steve Hall

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That's the title of an OpEd from the Sunday edition of the Houston Chronicle.  It's written by John Holdridge and Christopher Hill of the ACLU Capital Punishment Project.  LINKCameron Todd Willingham's unthinkable story has shocked the conscience of many Americans. The state of Texas executed Willingham in 2004 for supposedly murdering his three children by setting their house on fire. His conviction was based in substantial part on testimony by the state's arson experts about the cause of the fire. A recent report by a fire expert hired by Texas condemns the state's arson testimony as bogus and unscientific.In other words, Willingham almost certainly was innocent ? as he desperately maintained until his last dying breath...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 21, 2009 (boomark / email).

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