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HardWorkingDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-24-10 11:24 AM
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I want to know - Why no Fed civil rights violation investigation for Cameron Todd Willingham?
For those that do not know who this man is, he was executed for murder by the state of Texas for murder. Most likely, this man was innocent and a forensic scientist, through exhaustive research proved this. Not only this, this information was provided in plenty of time to stop this man's execution, but authorities in Texas refused to even take a few moments to read through a ten page summary of the forensic findings that proved this man's innocence.

But here's something that baffles me even more: where is the demand for a civil rights violation investigation into this man's execution? I do not see any push from the left at all for such a violation. The Gov of Texas and those that decided this man's fate after the verdict should be investigated.

In contrast, a couple of weeks ago a young man was beaten by police in Maryland and people all over demanded the FBI come in and do a civil rights violation investigation. Cameron Todd Willingham is dead. Put to death by OUR government. Politicians in Texas put this man to death needlessly and unjustly and the outcry, in my opinion, is left to the passionate cries of the relative few.

I just don't get it.

A lengthy article can be read about him in the below link.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_grann
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