World Premiere of “Trial by Fire” about Todd Willingham at Telluride Film Festival August 31, 2018
The World Premiere of the new film “Trial by Fire” about Todd Willingham is at the Telluride Film Festival August 31, 2018. Here is the link to the program for the 2018 TFF
Major Film Planned About Todd Willingham
From Deadline.com Jack O’Connell and Laura Dern have been set to star in Trial by Fire, a fact-based drama that Ed Zwick will direct. Oscar-winning Precious scribe Geoffrey Fletcher wrote the script, adapted from the 2009 article in The New Yorker that won David Grann the Polk Award. Zwick will produce through his Bedford Falls banner with Flashlight Films’ Allyn Stewart & Kipp Nelson, and Alex Soros, the latter of whom is financing. Production is set to begin October 2 in Atlanta. Kathryn Dean and Marshall Herskovitz are exec producing and film sales will be represented by Cinetic Media and
Trial Starts to Determine if Todd Willingham’s Prosecutor Hid Evidence
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 Willingham
Remember Todd Willingham: Attend the Statewide Texas Lobby Day to Abolish the Death Penalty Monday, April 17, 2017
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 exonerees
Help Texas Man Set for Execution Under Law of Parties – Jeff Wood Did Not Kill Anyone
Jeff Wood is scheduled for execution in Texas on August 24, 2016 under the law of parties even though he did not kill anyone. We need to persuade the Texas governor and members of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to commute Jeff’s death sentence. I have known Jeff’s family for many years. His sister Terri Been is leading the effort to #savejeffwood. She has testified to the Texas Legislature to ban executions under the Law of Parties and spoken out many times to save her brother from an unjust execution. We created a petition to David G. Gutiérrez, Chair, Texas Board of Pardons
#6 of Top Ten Texas Death Penalty Stories of 2015: State Bar of Texas Accuses Willingham’s Prosecutor John Jackson of Misconduct
As 2015 draws to a close Texas Moratorium Network looks back on the top Texas death penalty news stories of the year. Each day, we will update this post with another Texas death penalty news story that broke in 2015. They will continue to post the list of ten top Texas death penalty news stories each day until they reach number one. See full list here. 6) Todd Willingham’s prosecutor John Jackson was accused of misconduct that led to wrongful conviction and execution of innocent man. In a major turn in one of the country’s most-noted death penalty cases, the State
Todd Willingham to Have Presence at 16th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty Oct 24, 2015
Five exonerated death row survivors will lead the 16th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty on October 24, 2015 at the Texas Capitol at 2 PM: Alfred Dewayne Brown, Ron Keine, Shujaa Graham, Sabrina Butler, and Gary Drinkard. Come to the march and hear how the death penalty puts innocent people at risk of execution if you want to know more about the march then click for more info. In addition to these five living, breathing survivors of death row, some people at the march will carry photos of Cameron Todd Willingham, an innocent person executed by the State of Texas in
Donate to Help Texas Death Row Survivor Alfred Dewayne Brown
After more than ten years on Texas death row for a crime he did not commit, Alfred Dewayne Brown walked free and into the loving arms of his family and friends on June 8, 2015. “I went in an innocent man and I came out an innocent man,” said Brown. Now, he needs your help so that he can rebuild his life. Can you please help him? Donate to Help Texas Death Row Survivor Alfred Dewayne Brown. Together with other friends, we have created a fundraising campaign for Dewayne on Indidgogo. In 2004, we conducted a fundraising campaign for Ernest