Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Eye-opening story.

This is the story of Cameron Todd Willingham, an innocent man that the state of Texas executed. The article is written really well and tells the heartbreaking story of a man whose entire life was ruined and taken by ignorant people. These people see someone who had been arrested before and assume that he had to have started a fire to purposefully kill his 3 young daughters. I had wavering views on Capital Punishment before, but now I'm pretty certain in how I feel. Just a great read, highly recommended. Cameron Todd Willingham in his cell on death row, in 1994. He insisted upon his innocence in the deaths of his children and refused an offer to plead guilty in return for a life sentence. Photograph by Ken Light.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_grann

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  1. Texas Moratorium NetworkSeptember 8, 2009 at 10:17 PM

    Sign a petition to Governor Rick Perry and the State of Texas to acknowledge that the fire in the Cameron Todd Willingham case was not arson, therefore no crime was committed and on February 17, 2004, Texas executed an innocent man.

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