Kristine Bunch
This case was and is not a death penalty case but the entire time I was researching it I could not stop thinking about the Todd Willingham case. If you're interested I have blogged about that case in the past but I will give a short summary. Todd Willingham was from Texas and was executed in 2004 for the arson murders of his three daughters. There was evidence present prior to his execution that the evidence used against him was faulty and yet the state of Texas carried out his execution. Since that time it has been almost completely proven that the man was innocent of the charges. I have said before that while I can nearly guarantee that innocent people have been executed in our history that when it comes to modern times the only one I can say that about for sure is Willingham. The standards that were used in his case to prove arson in the murder of his children had already been proven to be false many years before his conviction and yet were still being relied upon. ...