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Friday, November 18, 2011

Cameron Todd Willingham

Dudley Sharp wrote:

Not suprising, with all that care and time, there is no evidence of an innocent executed since the 1930's.

It looks like about 25 actually innocent people have been sent to death row since 1973, or about 0.3% of the 8100 sent to death row during that time and they were all released on appeal

Really? What about Cameron Todd Willingham?

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posted by Victor Reppert @ 1:41 PM  

5 Comments:

  • At November 18, 2011 2:58 PM , Blogger Leonhard said...

    And is that the number of people exonerated post-execution, or the expected number of people was executed despite being innocent?

     

  • At November 19, 2011 10:53 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

    Why all the fuss about killing innocents? If they are Chritians, then they go to heaven - almost a favor. If they aren't Christians, then we give them time to repent and then kill them. So they choose whether they are going somewhere good or bad.

     

  • At November 19, 2011 12:34 PM , Blogger PhilosophyFan said...

    Funny, no one who makes such an argument ever killed themselves a moment before.

     

  • At November 21, 2011 7:02 PM , Blogger dudleysharp said...

    13) "Cameron Todd Willingham: Another Media Meltdown", A Collection of Articles
    http://homicidesurvivors.com/categories/Cameron%20Todd%20Willingham.aspx

    The false innocence claims by anti death penalty activists are legendary. Some examples:

    4) "The Innocent Executed: Deception & Death Penalty Opponents"
    http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/10/08/the-innocent-executed-deception--death-penalty-opponents--draft.aspx

    5) The 130 (now 138) death row "innocents" scam
    http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/03/04/fact-checking-issues-on-innocence-and-the-death-penalty.aspx

    6) "Exoneration Inflation: Justice Scalia’s Concurrence in Kansas v. March", by Ward Campbell, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, California Department of Justice, p 49, The Journal of the
    Institute for the Advancement of Criminal Justice, Issue 2, Summer 2008,
    http://www.cjlf.org/files/CampbellExonerationInflation2008.pdf

    7) "The innocence tactic: Unreliable studies and disinformation", reports By United States Congress, Senate, 107th Congress, 2d Session, Calender no 731, Report 107-315. The Innocence Protection Act of 2002, (iv) The innocence tactic: Unreliable studies and disinformation, p 65-69, http://alturl.com/6j7oc

    8) "The Innocent and the Shammed", Joshua Marquis, Published in New York Times, 1/26/2006
    http://coa­stda.blogs­pot.com/20­06/01/inno­cent-and-s­hammed-nyt­-oped.html

    9) "Troy Davis & The Innocent Frauds of the anti death penalty lobby", http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2011/11/troy-davis-innocent-frauds-of-anti.html

    10) "The Myth Of Innocence"­, Joshua Marquis, pu­blished in the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminolog­y - 3/31/2005, Northweste­rn University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois
    http://jos­hmarquis.b­logspot.co­m/2005/03/­myth-of-in­nocence.ht­ml

    11) Sister Helen Prejean & the death penalty: A Critical Review"
    http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/05/04/sister-helen-prejean--the-death-penalty-a-critical-review.aspx

    12) "At the Death House Door" Can Rev. Carroll Pickett be trusted?"
    http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/01/30/fact-checking-is-very-welcome.aspx

     

  • At November 22, 2011 4:29 AM , Blogger PhilosophyFan said...

    Based on that top article, it really sounds like he was not innocent at all.

     

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