Comments on: WAS CAMERON TODD WILLINGHAM INNOCENT?

By: Gregory Despain

Gregory Despain — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:29:31 +0000

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By: R. Pierce

R. Pierce — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:31:55 +0000

To Lynn Taylor.
Wheter this man was innocent or guilty DOES matter. He was found guilty, but lets put that aside. If he did murder his 3 children which he was convicted of, what about the mother and grandparents of the children that have to live with that? Do you not have any feeling for them? You are right we are not God. But your argument that murder is murder is misleading. Captial Punishment is NOT murder. The very definition of it says that in the dictionary. It is quite easy to teach children the difference. Goes to motive. The reason Willingham was executed was because he murdered 3 children. It wasn’t because the state wanted to get him out of the way because he cramped their lifestyle. We can teach our kids the difference the same way we can teach them that kidnapping is wrong. But locking someone in prison for commiting a crime isn’t. We can say that speeding is wrong. But it is ok for a police officer to speed to chase a speeder or get to an emergency. We can teach that shooting someone is wrong. But if that person is shooting at you it is ok to defend yourself. It’s not hard at all.
So if you are an honest person who believes that capital punishment is the same as murder. Then you must also believe that prison for people who steal is the same as kidnapping. And that a paying a traffic ticket is the same as extortion.
One thing. There has been NO NEW EVIDENCE found in this case. One guy is challenging the old evidence. That is it.
I think the prosecution and jury wouldn’t sleep very well if they let him go when all the evidence at the time was against him. Heck he couldn’t even tell the same story twice about it.

By: Lynn Taylor

Lynn Taylor — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:26:19 +0000

Whether this man was innocent or guilty does not matter at this point, the damage is done, his lovedones are the real ones that have been punished by his exacution, his suffering is over, they are the ones having to live with our societies mistakes. The fact that we are not God is important, and who do we think we are tring to play God? Who are we to say who should be killed and why they should be killed? Murder is murder, it makes no difference who is doing the killing. How can we teach our children that killing is wrong when we are killing people that we THINK may have killed someone.I Based on the new evidence that has been found, feel that this man could have been innocent of the charges against him and i hope the people that was on that jury and the prosecution has a real hard time sleeping at night…

By: R. Pierce

R. Pierce — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:44:54 +0000

One thing you seem to leave out, well not just you, a lot of sites that preport the innocence of Willingham, was that beyond his “fucked up” attitude. Was the fact that he never told the same story twice about the fire.
Amber woke him up in his room, Her cries woke him up and she was in another room, He told her to get out, He tried to grab her but she evaded him, He tried to rescue the twins, He didn’t try to rescue the twins, etc..
That is all beyond the fire of course, but still reason for the jury and others to think him guilty.

By: Billy Sinclair

Billy Sinclair — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:40:19 +0000

W. Olsson: You’re right about my error in referring to the Willingham fire as a trailer fire. Don’t know where that notion came from. My wife pointed the mistake out to me the other day. I have now corrected all references in my Willingham posts about it being a trailer fire. Thanks for the keen observation. However, it’s a shame that your intelligence is not as keen as your critical observation – anyone who would pull up short on a subject because of a minor error would have a problem finding their provervial butt from a hole in the ground. Billy Sinclair

By: W. Olsson

W. Olsson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:43:04 +0000

I stopped reading when I realized you don’t know the difference between a trailer and a wood frame house. Like everyone else who thinks this guy was innocent you didn’t bother to carefully examine the evidence.

By: Tammy Cantu

Tammy Cantu — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:41:42 +0000

How many more people have to be murdered before this madness stops? My husband is INNOCENT on Texas Death Row and the Sate of Texas does not care.