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Cameron Todd Willingham (January 9, 1968 – February 17, 2004) was an American man who was convicted and executed for the murder of his three young children by arson at the family home in Corsicana, Texas, on December 23, 1991.
[42] [43] [44] One of these supporters, John Grisham, cited his reason behind his support for clemency, stating that no crime had taken place to begin with and that Texas was about to execute an innocent man. [45] Under Texas state law, the final recourse for inmates awaiting their scheduled execution was to appeal for clemency and the Texas ...
Texas lawmakers meet with Robert Roberson at a prison in Livingston, Texas, Sept. 27, 2024. ... Wharton has said openly he believes Roberson is an innocent man. ... Other recent death penalty ...
Texas, which is the second most populous state of the Union, has executed 591 offenders since the U.S. capital punishment resumption in 1976 (beginning in 1982 with the Brooks execution) to October 1, 2024 (the execution of Garcia Glen White)—more than a third of the national total. [2]
Texas is preparing to put a man to death Thursday in what would be the nation’s first execution involving a case of ... “This is an innocent man, beyond question,” Brian Wharton, the former ...
The prison houses 2,937 prisoners and at least 180 of them, like Cantu, are awaiting execution. Cantu, who was born in Dallas 50 years ago, was sentenced to death in October 2001.
The list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas, with the exception of 1819–1849, is divided into periods of 10 years. Since 1819, 1,343 people (all but nine of whom have been men) have been executed in Texas as of 1 January 2025.
Robert Roberson went to death row for a Shaken Baby Syndrome case built on skimpy forensics and bad judgment calls. An Oct. 17 execution date looms.