Sidebar With an Expert Capital Litigator
People wonder why I am so adamently opposed to the death penalty, and then stories like this appear in the media and I, in turn, wonder how anyone can support capital punishment.
Sam Milsap’s Mea Culpa
Sam Milsap is a seasoned criminal lawyer with over 30 years experience, and for a long while he served…
John Grisham chose a story about the death penalty for his first non-fiction novel, and it’s well worth the read. The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town, has been out for awhile — so long in fact, that you can buy a used copy on Amazon for a buck ninety-nine ($1.99). …
Apparently, Cy Vance’s great article in HuffPo on the tragic story of Cameron Todd Willingham (see last week’s post) was just the start. More and more stories are appearing across the country, covering the brutal fact that a man was killed by the State of Texas for the arson murder of his children and only…