Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man?

Being from Texas, I'm especially interested in the answer to this question. The article in The New Yorker called Trial by Fire makes me believe that Cameron Todd Willingham was executed for a crime he did not commit.

This case is making me rethink how I feel about the death penalty. I used to believe that if the crime was heinous enough, the death penalty was warranted. I've never believed that the justice system in this country was fair (the poor have a horrible, horrible disadvantage in our system), but somehow I thought it was different for death penalty cases. I thought the courts were more careful. I believed that the appeals system worked. It didn't work for Willingham and he was executed.

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