Mark Bennett | September 2, 2009
I’ve been meaning to write this piece for a while, either as a blog post or as the framework for a piece of speculative legal fiction. Cindy Henley’s and Jeff Gamso’s comments to my post about the Cameron Todd Willingham case prompted me to do it now, rather than later . . . . If [...]
Category: death penalty, justification, law of parties |
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Mark Bennett | September 2, 2009
Cameron Todd Willingham died at age 36. Convicted of capital murder in Corsicana, Texas in 1991 for the fire death of his three daughters, Willingham was executed in 2004. The evidence against Willingham? A jailhouse snitch, Johnny Webb, who alleged that Willingham had confessed to him that he took “some kind of lighter fluid, squirting [...]
Category: actual innocence, arson, capital murder, death penalty |
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Tags: Cameron Todd Willingham, Douglas Fogg, John Jackson, Manuel Vasquez