New Evidence Discredits Witness Against Todd Willingham
Citing New Evidence, Innocence Project Calls for Pardon by Brandi Grissom and Edgar Walters, The Texas Tribune Feb. 28, 2014 Updated, Feb. 28, 2014, 2:30 p.m.: Attorneys working on behalf of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed 10 years ago after he was convicted of setting a house fire that killed his three young daughters, say they have new evidence that suggests he was innocent. Lawyers from the New York-based Innocence Project say a newly discovered note in the files of John Jackson, the prosecutor who oversaw his conviction, suggests that Jackson made a deal with a jailhouse informant, Johnny