A Texas judge who reviewed the controversial 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham planned to posthumously exonerate the father who was put to death for killing his three daughters in a house fire. Scientific experts who debunked the arson ...
During the Supreme Court's 2006 adjudication of Cameron v. Marsh, Justice Antonin Scalia had this to say about what would happen if an innocent person was put to death by the criminal justice system: "If such an event had occurred in recent ...
Senator Rodney Ellis says in a Texas Monthly roundtable discussion, “I’m convinced [Cameron Todd] Willingham was innocent.” Yet, Senator Ellis won’t push for a moratorium on executions. That does not make sense. If the Texas Legislature ...
I don’t know about you, but I’d forgotten about this. A Texas judge who reviewed the controversial 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham planned to posthumously exonerate the father who was put to death for killing his three daughters in a house fire. Scientific experts who debunked the arson evidence used against Willingham at his [...]
Former Travis County District Judge Charlie Baird, a past member of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals who is currently competing in a heated primary for District Attorney, wrote an 18-page opinion in the Todd Willingham court of inquiry that was never issued because an appellate court shut the process down, reported Michael McLaughlin at the Huffington Post:A Texas judge who reviewed the controversial 2004 execution of Cameron Todd...