Cameron Todd Willingham, Texas, and the death penalty

The 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 through doorways, blistering paint and tiles and furniture. Smoke pressed against the ceiling, then banked downward, seeping into each room and . . . Full Story »

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by Kaizar Campwala - Sep. 13, 2009

A devastating piece of journalism. Grann is a skillful story teller who engages the reader in the very same false narrative that failed Willingham, and perhaps many others on death row. Recommended read.

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