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 »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via Dave Winer, Dan Gillmor, Columbia Journalism Review, New Yorker, Umbreen Bhatti (t), Megan Taylor (t), Rachel Fus (t), Matthew Nadler (t)
I have been suspect of the justice system because of my own personal experience. To me that this is another sorry incident that there are many holes in the justice system which is subject to prejudice and suspect reasoning.