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Blogosphere Buzzes Over Todd Willingham Case

By Steve Hall

"So Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man?" is from Radney Balko today at the Reason.com Hit & Run blog.I wrote at the time that it was tough to say Willingham was innocent, only that he should never have been convicted. But in an in-depth investigation published in last week's New Yorker, David Grann makes a compelling case that Willingham didn't set the fire. Grann also participated in a follow-up chat, and answered criticism of his article?convincingly, I think?on the New Yorker's blog. So what now? I'm opposed to the death penalty, but mostly because I have little faith in the government to administer it competently. So I've never much doubted that one or more states have executed innocent people. There has long been a sentiment among death penalty opponents that proof of an executed innocent would turn public opinion on the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 08, 2009 (boomark / email).