Cameron "Todd" Willingham: An Innocent Man Executed?
One can hardly argue that every person that has ever been executed has in fact been guilty. There have been too many instances over the years, most recently the case of twelve year old George Stinney who was executed in 1944 and posthumously exonerated seventy years later, of this. This should not necessarily be a surprise to anyone for many reason. For one we cannot ignore the racism and bias that went on, and some argue continues to go on, in our justice system. In Stinney's case he was a obviously very young African American who was convicted of murdering two young white girls. In cases such as his, as well as those like the case of Joe Arridy who was executed in 1939 and exonerated in 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken actions to prevent these executions. It is now illegal to execute someone who's crime was committed before the age of eighteen or anyone who is officially considered mentally challenged. In the the Arridy case it was ...