Texas justice system has major flaws » Corpus Christi Caller-Times Editorial, Sept 13, 2009 For the past three years in Texas, news reports have revealed that dozens of innocent people have been convicted of violent crimes they didn’t commit. At least 38 men in Texas spent decades in prison based on wrongful convictions and the state will now make compensation payments for these exonerees. The exonerations in Texas have resulted from the revolution that DNA testing has done for the criminal justice system since 1989. They confirm the fact that something has gone terribly wrong in the prosecution of ohContinue readingTexas justice system has major flaws says Corpus Christi Caller-Times

Accompanied by 300 supporters standing outside the gates of the Texas Governor’s Mansion, family members (pictured) of Cameron Todd Willingham delivered a letter to Gov Perry on October 28, 2006 asking him to stop executions and investigate the case of their step son/uncle to determine if he was wrongfully executed. The Willingham’s were in Austin for the 7th Annual March to Stop Executions. The 10th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty is October 24, 2009 at the Texas Capitol in Austin. Eugenia Willingham slipped the letter, along with a copy of an article from the Chicago Tribune that concludedContinue reading2006 Letter from Todd Willingham’s Family to Gov. Rick Perry

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In this interview from his appearance on MSNBC, David Grann, who wrote the article “Trial by Fire” in the New Yorker about the Todd Willingham case, says there is “not a single shred of evidence of arson”. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Texas Should Admit Todd Willingham was InnocentSign a petition to Governor Rick Perry and the State of Texas to acknowledge that the fire in the Cameron Todd Willingham case was not arson, therefore no crime was committed and on February 17, 2004, Texas executed an innocent man.

The Corsicana Daily Sun has been making up for lost time lately in the Willingham case, publishing several articles about the case since the report was released by Dr Craig Beyler that concluded that the fire in the Willingham case was not arson. The local paper started out Aug 29 publishing a column by Judge John Jackson that was so embarrassingly unprofessional coming from a judge that it could land him in trouble with the State Commission on Judicial Conduct for casting discredit on the Texas judiciary. Now, the Corsicana Sun has a piece in which it rounds up theContinue reading“Total idiots” in Corsicana Strike Back at Scientific Reports that Todd Willingham Fire Was Not Arson

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Before the article in the New Yorker, “Trial by Fire” by David Grann, appeared last week, John Jackson, one of the prosecutors in the original trial of Todd Willingham, wrote a guest column in the Corsicana Sun laying out why he thought Willingham was guilty, despite the  “undeniably flawed” forensic evidence about the fire. Now, Grann has responded to Jackson’s arguments. Excerpt from Grann’s rebuttal: He writes that it has been “omitted” from reports on the Willingham case that Willingham had allegedly moved a refrigerator against the back door of the house. “Any escape or rescue route from the burningContinue readingDavid Grann of New Yorker Responds to Former Prosecutor’s Ludicrous Claim that Todd Willingham was Guilty Despite “undeniably flawed” Forensic Evidence

In addition to signing the petition below, which we will deliver to Rick Perry’s office in person, please take a moment to contact Governor Perry directly (see contact info here). Tell Perry to acknowledge that there was no arson, therefore no crime and Texas executed an innocent person. View Current Signatures

This video of David Grann talking about the Todd Willingham case includes footage of damage from the fire in the Willingham home, as well as an experiment conducted that recreated the Lime Street Fire and that resulted in proving that the Lime Street Fire was not arson.

September 1, 2009 OP-ED COLUMNIST Innocent but Dead By BOB HERBERT There is a long and remarkable article in the current New Yorker about a man who was executed in Texas in 2004 for deliberately setting a fire that killed his three small children. Rigorous scientific analysis has since shown that there was no evidence that the fire in a one-story, wood frame house in Corsicana was the result of arson, as the authorities had alleged. In other words, it was an accident. No crime had occurred. Cameron Todd Willingham, who refused to accept a guilty plea that would haveContinue reading“Innocent but Dead” by Bob Herbert