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Questions About an Execution

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an editorial in today's New York Times.  LINK  An excerpt:People should have no illusions about the brutal injustice of the death penalty after all of the exonerations in recent years from DNA evidence, but the case of Cameron Todd Willingham is still shocking. Mr. Willingham was executed for setting a fire that killed his 2-year-old daughter and 1-year-old twins, but a fire expert hired by the State of Texas has issued a report casting enormous doubt on whether the fire was arson at all. The Willingham investigation, which is continuing, is further evidence that the criminal justice system is far too flawed to justify imposing a death penalty. After the fire, investigators decided, based in large part on burn patterns on the house?s floors, that it was intentionally set...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 31, 2009 (boomark / email).