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More Eyes Focus on Todd Willingham and the Lessons to Learn

By Steve Hall

The next several posts will be devoted to new coverage of the Todd Willingham case.  Let's start with editorials from the San Antonio Express-News and Los Angeles Times."A lethal failure of justice," is the title of an editorial in today's San Antonio Express-News.The one argument that gives even death penalty proponents pause is the prospect that the state might put an innocent person to death. Death penalty cases have multiple layers of appeals and reviews that are intended to avoid such an eventuality. Does that process work?In recent years, the exoneration with DNA evidence of scores of death row inmates nationwide ? including many from Texas ? has raised serious questions about the way some death penalty defendants are represented and treated in the criminal justice system...continue to full post

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