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Lithwick: Innocent Until Executed

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Dahlia Lithwick's latest Newsweek column, and it tops today's coverage of Todd Willingham's tragic case. It's subtitled, "  We have no right to exoneration. For years, death-penalty opponents and supporters have been working their way toward a moment in which each side would rethink things. They were seeking a case in which a clearly innocent defendant was wrongly put to death. In a 2005 Supreme Court case that actually had nothing to do with the execution of innocents, Justices David Souter and Antonin Scalia tangled over the possibility that such a creature even existed. Souter fretted that "the period starting in 1989 has seen repeated exonerations of convicts under death sentences, in numbers never imagined before the development of DNA tests...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 04, 2009 (boomark / email).