samedi 24 septembre 2011

?Incendiary?: A Texas execution, under fire

In recent years, more than 250 Americans convicted of serious crimes have been freed thanks to sophisticated analysis of DNA and other forensic evidence. ?Incendiary: The Willingham Case,? a documentary that opens in Washington on Friday, is not about a case like that.

Cameron Todd Willingham, the man at the story?s center, was convicted of a horrible crime: murdering his three young daughters by setting the family house on fire. But he can?t be released from prison because he was executed in 2004. And he can?t exactly be exonerated, his champions say, because there was no crime; the fire that killed the three girls was accidental, they say.

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