David Grann, Trial By Fire: Did Texas execute an innocent man? The New Yorker. 7 September 2009. “The fire moved quickly through the house [on 23 December 1991], a one-story wood-frame structure in a working-class neighborhood of Corsicana, in northeast Texas. Flames spread along the walls, bursting through doorways, blistering paint and tiles and furniture. Smoke pressed against the ceiling, then banked downward, seeping into each room and through crevices in the windows, staining the morning sky.” [Read more…]
September 7, 2009
Trial By Fire: Did Texas execute an innocent man?
September 7, 2009 Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Science Tagged With: arson, barry scheck, cameron todd willingham, corsicana texas, death penalty, dr. gerald hurst, elizabeth gilbert, innocence project, jailhouse informants, john jackson, legendary lime street fire, wrongful convictions in capital cases