ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
AP Legal Affairs Writer
COLUMBUS, Ohio
A death row inmate is hoping the state parole board will give him the chance to argue that a mysterious "man in red" could have started the arson fire that killed his 3-year-old son.
Webb doesn't dispute the 1990 blaze was arson, but he denies starting it and says investigators using now-discredited methods came to the wrong conclusion about where in the house the flames broke out. He...Read Full Story
The evidence continues to mount that the state of Texas executed a potentially innocent man, Cameron Todd Willingham , for a crime he didn't commit. Just days before a committee was to convene, reviewing evidence that the investigation and prosecution that led to Willingham's death by the hands of the state, Texas governor Rick Perry removed three of the member of the panel, cancelling the meeting. Some are now raising concerns that the Republican governor, who refused to grant a stay of...Read Full Story
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Barry Schenk in Incendiary: The Willingham Case. Texas is burning By John Esther As Rick Perry carries on his futile run for the Republican Party 2012 presidential nomination, a documentary about just some of his misconduct as the current and longest Governor of Texas hits a few select theaters. Co-directed and produced by Steve Mims and Joe Bailey Jr., Incendiary: The Willingham Case chronicles how a brutish -- but seemingly innocent of infanticide -- man named Cameron Todd Willingham was...Read Full Story
The Troy Davis case has reignited an old debate: when is the death penalty the right answer? Here are several controversial stories from death row in the US.
Teresa Lewis
The first woman to die by lethal injection in the state of Virginia, Teresa Lewis was convicted of paying to have her husband and stepson murdered in 2002. Her case sparked an outcry, because testing had put Lewis’ IQ at 72, just two points above that classified as intellectually disabled.
Her supporters...Read Full Story
The Cameron Todd Willingham case began with a 1991 arson that killed his three young daughters. Willingham was executed for his daughters' deaths, but his guilt has been questioned by modern forensics.
As governor of Texas, Rick Perry has allowed the executions of 238 people, including at least one, Cameron Todd Willingham, who may have been innocent. Perry has turned away the majority of applicants recommended for a pardon by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles.
As governor of Texas, Rick Perry has allowed the executions of 238 people, including at least one, Cameron Todd Willingham, who may have been innocent. Perry has turned away the majority of applicants recommended for a pardon by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles.
Cameron Todd Willingham was a Texas man executed in 2004 for setting a fire that killed his three daughters. New evidence and a new invesigation is now raising concerns that the state of Texas may have executed an innocent man. Find more Cameron Todd Willingham news and information here.
Cameron Todd Willingham (January 9, 1968 – February 17, 2004), born in Carter County, Oklahoma, was sentenced to death by the state of Texas for murdering his three daughters ...
he fire moved quickly through the house, a one-story wood-frame structure in a working-class neighborhood of Corsicana, in northeast Texas. Flames spread along the walls, bursting ...