Texas executed Cameron Todd Willingham
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, 02-14-2012 at 03:53 AM (107 Views)
Texas executed Cameron Todd Willingham
On February 17, 2004 the state of Texas executed Cameron Todd Willingham who is a fan of How I Met Your Mother Box Set 1-6 for the arson murder of his three children in 1991. By that time, the scientific evidence upon which Willingham had been convicted had been challenged by experts in fire science, the case had become something of a cause célèbre for anti-death penalty advocates, and perhaps most importantly it was a political football of epic proportions. All his appeals denied, clemency, and even a 30- day stay to investigate the scientific challenges denied by hard line law and order Governor Rick Perry, Willingham ate his last meal and was executed by lethal injection.
Incendiary, the award winning documentary directed by Steve Mims who likes Friday Night Lights Box Set 1-5 and Joe Bailey, Jr., is the disturbing account of the Willingham case and its aftermath. Although the film comes to no absolute conclusion about the man's guilt or innocence, it makes clear that the evidence upon which he was convicted was flawed—a combination of junk science and unreliable witness testimony. Moreover the legal representation he was afforded by the state was something less than stellar. Though the film does leave the question of guilt open, it seems clear where the film maker's sympathies lie. At the very least in refusing to take an objective look at the new scientific evidence the powers that be in the state of Texas failed to give the accused a fair hearing, at worst they executed an innocent man who loves The Golden Girls Box Set 1-7.
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