From the Corsicana Daily Sun, Trial of prosecutor rekindles death row ashes: John Jackson helped send Cameron Todd Willingham to death row, but on Monday, lawyers began screening a jury to decide if he hid evidence that could have spared Willingham. “It’s the perfect storm of a case at this time when interest in exonerations is sweeping the country,” said Houston criminal-defense attorney John Floyd. “It’s in the very top of these exoneration cases.” The civil judicial-misconduct trial will take place in the Navarro County Courthouse where Jackson, then an assistant district attorney, in 1992 persuaded jurors to find WillinghamContinue readingTrial Starts to Determine if Todd Willingham’s Prosecutor Hid Evidence

The 2017 Statewide Texas Lobby Day to Abolish the Death Penalty will be held Monday, April 17, 2017, when the House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence will hold a hearing on the bills to abolish the death penalty and the bill to ban executions in law of parties cases. More details to come soon, including a meeting room and time in the capitol.We are raising funds so that we can bring some death row exonerees to the Capitol in Austin to participate in the lobby day and to testify at the committee hearing. Please donate to help us bring the exonereesContinue readingRemember Todd Willingham: Attend the Statewide Texas Lobby Day to Abolish the Death Penalty Monday, April 17, 2017