Showing posts with label Cameron Willingham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cameron Willingham. Show all posts
Saturday, January 26, 2013

Lowest common denominator

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Rizana Nafeek was a 17-year-old from Sri Lanka who took a job as a nanny in Saudi Arabia back in 2005. Shortly after she took the job, the f...
Friday, September 9, 2011

Cheering on the state death machine

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That's right. You heard the audience cheer when Brian Williams stated how many inmates have been murdered by the State of Texas. You h...
Monday, August 1, 2011

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil

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What do you do when you're tired of the Texas Forensic Science Commission keeps sticking its nose into whether or not an innocent man, C...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

How long until they decide to outlaw trial by jury?

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The backlash against the not guilty verdicts in the Casey Anthony case has reached Texas. State Sen. Chris Harris (R-Arlington) has let th...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Death of an innocent

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"I don't care how many degrees you may have. How many books you may have written. This was a set fire." -- Douglass Fogg, Assi...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

The execution of an innocent?

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Tonight PBS' documentary series Frontline  takes a look at the controversy surrounding the conviction and execution of Cameron Todd Will...
Saturday, July 24, 2010

Flawed science

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Yesterday I wrote about the back-door machinations over at the Texas Forensic Science Commission and an update from their meeting in Houston...
Friday, July 23, 2010

Burying the truth like a bone

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The blow-dried one, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, is willing to do whatever he can to erase the stink of an innocent man being executed under hi...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Convicted rapist exonerated by DNA

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Ernest Sonnier who was released from prison last August when evidence surfaced that he had been wrongly convicted of a 1985 rape was exoner...
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Forensic science commission meeting to be streamed online

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The Texas Forensic Science Commission will meet at 9:00 a.m. on April 23, 2010 (Friday) to discuss the Cameron Willingham case. Click her...
Thursday, March 25, 2010

Skinner execution stayed despite Perry's best efforts

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changeJustice : Execution set for 6pm CST tomorrow, Hank Skinner needs us now...Tell TX Governor to grant stay! http://cot.ag/bsEfCP PrisonR...
Monday, February 1, 2010

Trying to bury the truth

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"There will be peace in the valley for me some day." -- Thomas A. Dorsey (1937) Maybe that's what Williamson County DA John Br...
Friday, December 4, 2009

Paybacks can be hell

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University of Houston law professor David Dow is now wearing the shoe off the other foot. Mr. Dow and the Texas Defender Service (TDS) were ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Texas Senate holds hearings on state forensic commission

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The Texas Senate Committee on Criminal Justice met this morning to question Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley who was recentl...
Monday, October 19, 2009

What's good for the goose...

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry is fighting efforts from news organizations to obtain an memo from his general counsel recommending a 30-day reprieve...
Friday, October 16, 2009

This is the best that Perry can do?

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The headline screams that Cameron Willingham confessed to setting the fire that killed his children and led to his murder at the hands of t...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Where there's smoke...

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The ousted chairman of the Texas Forensic Science Commission, Sam Bassett, says that lawyers representing the blow-dried one, Gov. Rick Perr...
Friday, October 9, 2009

Governor appoints new members to forensic science panel

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The well-coiffed one, Texas Governor Rick Perry got around to appointing two new members to the Texas Forensic Science Commission , just a l...
Thursday, October 1, 2009

Forensic panel cancels meeting after Gov. Perry dismisses three members

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Forty-eight hours before the Texas Forensic Science Commission was set to meet to discuss a report that was critical of the arson investigat...
Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Evidence mounts that Texas executed an innocent man

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In August 2008, I wrote about the case of Cameron Willingham who was murdered by the State of Texas for allegedly setting a fire that kille...
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