Nightline: The Wrongful Execution of Cameron Todd Willingham

[Bozita]

Run time: 09:33 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-cMpKfDPHg   Posted on YouTube: September 18, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: October 04, 2009 By DU Member: Bozita Views on DU: 642

 
Link to the New Yorker article:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_grann

[BrklynLiberal]

1. In Texas? Wow..what a shock.....

NOT!!!!!


Heard about this on NPR this week.

[CAG]

2. Good ol' Texas justice; let the facts be damned! the dude listened to

heavy metal so he was a SAAAATTTAANN worshipper, so he obviously did it!

Ten bucks says that this John Jackson prosecuting lawyer is a little self-righteous fundy who voted for Cheney/* and has wet dreams of Failin Palin.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. and the public defender slept thru the trial...

[Pool Hall Ace]

5. I read your comment before watching the video

You weren't kidding! Perhaps I should stay out of Texas entirely, just to avoid a possible confrontation with someone as dangerously warped as John Jackson.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

4. I'm obsessed with this story.

My entire life I've struggled with the death penalty. For the first time the light came on as clear as can be.

The New Yorker article on this case is stunning. At the end of his life, Willingham admits to the only lie he told
was he didn't crawl into the children's fire filled room to save them. An impossible effort. It just breaks
your heart to know this father probably beat himself up for years over that small detail when an entire system
failed him.

[Nikki Stone1]

6. I cannot believe these yahoos! A pentagram of accelerant? Are they out of their minds?

I didn't see any pentagram on that floor.

This is what happens when religion is substituted for science.