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Cameron Todd Willingham (January 9, 1968 – February 17, 2004) was an American man who was convicted and executed for the murder of his three young children by arson at the family home in Corsicana, Texas, on December 23, 1991. Since Willingham's 2004 execution, significant controversy has arisen over the legitimacy of the guilty verdict and ...
Incendiary: The Willingham Case is a 2011 documentary film by Steve Mims and Joe Bailey, Jr. that explores the conviction and execution of Cameron Todd Willingham for arson murder. Equal parts murder mystery, forensic investigation and political drama, the film meticulously reviews the arson evidence used to convict Willingham, and immerses ...
It was the first execution in the state since 1964. [1] Texas, which is the second most populous state of the Union, has executed 589 offenders since the U.S. capital punishment resumption in 1976 (beginning in 1982 with the Brooks execution) to August 7, 2024 (the execution of Arthur Lee Burton)—more than a third of the national total. [2]
Ernest Ray Willis (b. c. 1945 - January 7, 2021) [1] was an American man who spent 17 years on death row for murder by arson before being exonerated in 2004. Convicted of murder after two women died in a fire in his West Texas home, Willis was sentenced to death in 1987. In 1991, another person confessed to starting the fire, but this could not ...
Trial by Fire is a 2018 American biographical drama film directed by Edward Zwick. The story is based upon David Grann 's article "Trial by Fire" that appeared in The New Yorker in 2009 about case Willingham v. State of Texas. [ 3] The film stars Jack O'Connell, Laura Dern, Emily Meade, Jeff Perry and Jade Pettyjohn .
Gerald "Jerry" Hurst (June 16, 1937 – March 11, 2015) was an American chemist and fire investigator. Before becoming noted for arson investigations, Hurst designed explosives for warfare, invented a binary explosive device known as Kinepak and developed an improved chemical compound to create Liquid Paper. He also devised an explosive called ...
In June 2009, five years after Willingham's execution, the State of Texas ordered a re-examination of the case. Dr. Craig Beyler found "a finding of arson could not be sustained". Beyler said that key testimony from a fire marshal at Willingham's trial was "hardly consistent with a scientific mind-set and is more characteristic of mystics or ...
List of people executed in Texas, 1950–1959. The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1950 and 1959. During this period 76 people were executed by electrocution at the Huntsville Unit in Texas. [ 1][ 2] Three electrocutions took place on September 5, 1951; though no intervening law to prohibit multiple ...