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Two Angry Men

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That's the title of a web-only review for the Nation, by Robert Perkinson.  It's focused on innocence in the criminal justice system and the Duke lacrosse players, and the book, Until Proven Innocent  by journalist Stuart Taylor and Brooklyn College prof KC Johnson,  The article begins, however, with the case of Todd Willingham, a likely innocent executed by Texas in 2004.  LINK At the end of February 2004, I wrote a letter that would never be received. The intended recipient was Cameron Todd Willingham, a Texas prisoner on death row. Months earlier, Willingham had written me a ten-page, hand-printed essay about his life in solitary confinement and his last experience in the open air. In it, he recalled a cluster of "blazing purple flowers," the first he had seen in more than eight years...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 05, 2008 (boomark / email).