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In a blockbuster New Yorker piece this week,
David Grann persuasively demonstrates that in 2004, Texas executed an
innocent man, Cameron Todd Willingham. It is chilling reading. Whatever
you think about the death penalty, you can't want it to misfire. So how
did we get here, to a legal regime in which a junk-science arson
investigation was never questioned by indifferent defense lawyers, as
Grann portrays them, nor by unsympathetic judges, parole board members,
and Texas Governor Rick Perrry's office? ... (Read more in DoubleX)