Despite Hurst’s report and a series of emergency appeals filed by Willingham’s attorney, the execution went forward as scheduled. Cameron Todd Willingham was executed by lethal injection in 2004.

CORSICANA, Texas — John Jackson helped send Cameron Todd Willingham to death row, but on Monday, lawyers began screening a jury to decide if he hid evidence that could have spared Willingham. “ ...

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Cameron Todd Willingham had been on death row for 12 years when he said his final words, strapped to a Texas lethal injection table. "The only statement I want to make is that I am an innocent man ...

Director Edward Zwick‘s 2018 biographical drama is a heartbreaking film depicting Cameron Todd Willingham ... it did not occur right before Willingham’s execution. It was years earlier ...

Elizabeth Gilbert, a French teacher and playwright from Houston, was in her late forties when she became the pen pal of an inmate on death row in 1999. This inmate was Cameron Todd Willingham ...

One example is Cameron Todd Willingham, who was convicted and executed in Texas for starting a fire that killed his three daughters. Thirteen years later, the Texas Forensic Science Commission ...

A frantic and unprecedented rush by Texas lawmakers to successfully block the controversial execution of death row inmate Robert Roberson this week was notable for the absence of Gov. Greg Abbott ...

As mentioned above, Trial By Fire uses David Grann's 2009 article from The New Yorker as a reference point to tell the true story of Cameron Todd Willingham's prosecution and execution.