So says the Corsicana judge who sentenced him to die for the arson-murder of his three children, a toddler and two infants, and he makes a convincing case. For me. It’s a rebuttal to the anti-death penalty crowd–the usual suspects, including the Grits for Breakfast blog and the New Yorker, who think they have a winning hand in the callous wife-beater Willingham.
All because one outside analyst pronounced the state’s fire forensics in the early 90s case faulty. Now other partisans who claim Willingham was "an innocent man" are piling on Gov. Rick Perry, who wasn’t in office when Willingham was convicted but did deny his reprieve, claiming he’s obstructing justice by undercutting a state investigation. One of them is Paul Begala, the famous Democrat attack-dog, who likes to toss around the porn-word "teabaggers" on CNN. What a crew.
As one of the commenters at the Volokh Conspiracy has it: "I know the dude [was] guilty [because] his story makes no sense to me, and I doubt it would to any father. If my daughter woke me up to tell me the house was on fire, well, a lot of things might happen but one thing that isn’t going to happen is that she dies and I live." Nope.
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