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Why Is the Prosecutor Who Took Willingham's Life Smiling?

By Steve Hall

That's one of two questions Michael Landauer poses in, "Two new questions in the Todd Willingham case," at the Dallas Morning News Opinions blog.An interview with John Jackson, the lead prosecutor in the Willingham case, is disturbing. Jackson smirks and smiles as he admits to Nightline that the science used to convict a man and send him to the death chamber was deeply flawed. Is this about being right or is this about getting it right?Now he says "a man like Tod" deserved to die because, seriously, he was a fan of Iron Maiden and, therefore, a devil worshipper. More proof? The flashover fire left the shape of a pentagram in the floor. This man sits on the bench now. That worries me. It doesn't worry Rick Perry, though, who told our Todd Gillman that, even if you take out the arson evidence, this bad, bad man was clearly guilty of murder...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 22, 2009 (boomark / email).