Sep 02 2009
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“ Just before Willingham received the lethal injection, he was asked if he had any last words. He said, “The only statement I want to make is that I am an innocent man convicted of a crime I did not commit. I have been persecuted for twelve years for something I did not do. From God’s dust I came and to dust I will return, so the Earth shall become my throne.
— Alex Balk is right— a monster New Yorker article looking at Texac’s execution of an innocent man, Cameron Todd Willingham, is powerful as hell. Take an hour out of your day and just asorb David Grann’s great article.
