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25 Jan 2009, 7:45 am
Cameron Willingham presented evidence that the arson he was convicted of was not arson. [read post]
4 Oct 2011, 12:03 am by Jeff Gamso
  I'm sure Morton does, too.Of course, this is the same John Bradley who successfully torpedoed the investigation into the Willingham murder. [read post]
29 Oct 2011, 12:21 pm by Jeff Gamso
  It's not enough to prevent executions (just ask Cameron Todd Willingham). [read post]
7 Aug 2012, 9:59 pm by Jeff Gamso
Just as it's easy to toss out the iffy cases (Cameron Todd Willingham, say, or Troy Davis).Why those guys? [read post]
23 Dec 2010, 6:19 am by Jeff Gamso
  Then they look for case law that they can point to and saySee, I'm just doing my job, following the precedent.And if that requires misrepresenting the facts or the case law? [read post]
23 Jan 2010, 7:35 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Todd Willingham case got the debate over faulty arson forensics sidetracked into a death penalty dispute, but the truth is a lot of people have been convicted because an arson "expert" told a jury things were true about fire that science has since discredited.This isn't going to be the last time this comes up. [read post]
20 Dec 2015, 12:28 pm by John Floyd
  On Vacation   “I’m on vacation {not suspension],” the disgraced former DA told the newspaper. [read post]
11 Jan 2010, 10:25 am by Steve Hall
Me, I'm opposed to it and always have been. [read post]
7 May 2012, 11:20 am by Jeff Gamso
The problem is that the inevitability of factual, legal, and moral error gives us a system that we know must wrongly kill some defendants, a system that fails to deliver the fair, consistent, and reliable sentences of death required by the Constitution.I'm laboring this because it points toward one of the two reasons why the book is annoying. [read post]
5 Mar 2010, 7:03 pm by Mark Bennett
As long as Rick Perry and John Bradley keep obstructing the review of evidence in Cameron Todd Willingham’s case, Willingham, at least, won’t be proven to have been wrongfully executed. [read post]
15 Mar 2010, 9:11 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The best example is the Todd Willingham case, where debates over the death penalty scuttled a reexamination of faulty arson forensics.Were I advising abolitionists on political strategy, I'd suggest a public-policy approach that appeals to the interests of mainstream voters instead of just encouraging sympathy for offenders. [read post]
20 Jan 2011, 12:11 am by Jeff Gamso
There were even some who obtained DNA results, and still had relief denied.That's the post I was going to write.Then, my friend Hilary, told me that Killer Keller, Chief Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, is back in the news.I'm not going to rehash it all here. [read post]
18 Apr 2007, 6:46 am
I'm not talking about death row inmates (already they've their share of innocent people on death row -- both executed (Cameron Todd Willingham, Ruben Cantu, Carlos De Luna) and thankfully not executed (Randall Dale Adams, Clarence Brandley, Earnest Ray Willis....shall I go on? [read post]
18 Dec 2009, 8:01 am by Steve Hall
"A lot of people are saying, 'Unless I'm 100 percent sure, I'm not going to vote to kill,' " said Rob Owen, co-director of the Capital Punishment Clinic at the University of Texas. [read post]
11 Nov 2009, 4:21 am
Bradley, "I don't wear a Stetson, but I'm willing to bet son that I'm as big a Texan as you are. [read post]
18 Aug 2023, 4:30 am by Michael C. Dorf
The quote reflects the fact that many of the most important criminal cases involving the FORS arise when a federal law enforcement official uses force in the course of the performance of his duties and is then charged with violating state law.Although the order cites an appeals court decision, the ultimate source of the language in question is the Supreme Court's 1969 ruling in Willingham v. [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 1:18 pm by Jeff Gamso
 (I'm paraphrasing, but not making it up.) [read post]