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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > A list of every Inmate Executed in Texas, and their last words.
 
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bassguitarhero
Feb 29, 2008

Praseodymi posted:

You're in luck!


EDIT: Do you mean actually found innocent by the law? Yeah, Texas is never going to do that.

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A Texas judge who reviewed the controversial 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham planned to posthumously exonerate the father who was put to death for killing his three daughters in a house fire.

Scientific experts who debunked the arson evidence used against Willingham at his 1992 trial and a jailhouse witness who recanted his shaky testimony convinced District Court Judge Charlie Baird in 2010 that "Texas wrongfully convicted" him. But Baird's order clearing Willingham's name never became official, because a higher court halted the posthumous inquiry while it considered whether the judge had authority to examine the capital case.

While waiting for permission to finish the case from the Third Court of Appeals, Baird put together the document that "orders the exoneration of Cameron Todd Willingham for murdering his three daughters," because of "overwhelming, credible and reliable evidence" presented during a one-day hearing in Austin in October 2010.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/19/cameron-todd-willingham-exoneration_n_1524868.html

The original judge wanted to exonerate him after death, was blocked from doing so by a higher court, this is in addition to Governor Perry firing a bunch of members on a board that was set to release a review saying that Willingham was innocent: http://www.dogcanyon.org/2009/10/01/perry-terminates-board-members-investigating-execution/

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The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science has done a study in which they believe 4% of people who are sentenced to death are innocent: http://www.pnas.org/content/111/20/7230.abstract

Forbes writes about it here if you want something easier to digest: http://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethlopatto/2014/04/29/how-many-innocent-people-are-sentenced-to-death/

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