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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Nicholas Bentley
4.6
by Nicholas Bentley - Sep. 13, 2009

This story has to be read to understand how an innocent man has been put to death. In addition it is an excellent piece of narrative journalism by David Grann

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