"If you don't think it can happen to you, you're wrong."

[MajorChode]

Texas resists family's effort to clear executed man's name

Ardmore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Cameron Todd Willingham's family here in Oklahoma never believed he set the fire that killed his three daughters.

"We could not even imagine it," his cousin, Patricia Cox, recounted recently. "That was completely ludicrous to us."

But 16 days after the fire, Willingham was arrested. And within a year, he was on death row. On February 17, 2004, he was strapped to a gurney in a Texas prison and given a lethal injection, proclaiming his innocence to the end.

The story of how Willingham -- Todd, to his family -- went from a home on a shady street in Ardmore to the death chamber is a tale of science and skull tattoos, of last-minute hopes raised and dashed. It is a story wrapped up in allegations that the governor who let the execution go forward is now trying to derail an investigation into whether Texas put an innocent man to death.

And in Ardmore, where Willingham's baby shoes still sit on a desk in the house where he grew up, the family that fought to save his life is still trying to clear his name.

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http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/07/willingham.texas.execution.probe/index.html
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I'm glad to see CNN is not letting this story go. I hope then continue to put pressure on Gov. Goodhair. A quick search of Faux noise showed no updates since August.

[Skittles]

1. kicking for Mr. Willingham

I want the truth to come out, whatever it may be

[Angry Dragon]

2. Time to start making politicians accountable

Bring the governor up on charges of obstruction of justice........just my belief

[grantcart]

3. CNN has done a very good job on this one

Too bad it is so seldom we can say that.

[SallyMander]

4. There was an absolutely gripping story on this case

in the New Yorker. I didn't expect to read the whole thing but i just had to, and was crying by the end.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_grann?currentPage=all

K&R

[TuxedoKat]

5. Me too.

It was one of the saddest things I ever read.

[KathieG]

6. It's truly a powerful and shocking story.

[MajorChode]

7. Pulitzer Prize material right there