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DreamSmoker

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Thu May 14, 2015, 03:34 PM May 2015

Rick Perry executed a father of three after a Texas prosecutor hid evidence proving him innocent [View all]

Despite mounting concern that Willingham was innocent, the former Texas governor Rick Perry refused to stay his execution. In 2009, after an investigation by the Texas Forensic Science Commission found that the arson evidence was faulty, Perry replaced the board’s chairman and two other members and called Willingham “a monster.”

http://deadstate.org/rick-perry-executed-a-father-of-three-after-a-texas-prosecutor-hid-evidence-proving-him-innocent/

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