Cameron Todd Willingham Case Study

When it come to the case of Cameron Todd Willingham 
I think the community and his own attorney were biased against him they believed that he was guilty of killing his children and that no evidence would sway either way because he came out relatively unharmed did not go back and get them and his children died violently painfully. The evidence that the prosecutor was the arson story that the fire department had told based on their investigations of burn patterns. In the course of the investigation into that of the deaths of Willingham’s children they discovered Images that supposedly included satanic pictures and this influenced his community into believing that the burn patterns were used as attribute to the devil. These images were later
said to be posters of rock albums. The bottoms of his feet were not burned which inconclusively could have been to the fire starting from an above electrical fire or due to starting the fire outside with accelerant. He was also convicted due to the testimony of that of a jailhouse informant it has come to light that he was possible bribed by officials with a deal of early release which clouds the credibility of him as a witness for the prosecution. His wife never visited him in prison or spoke to him in the years of his incarceration it wasn’t until he was nearly executed and then she later testified that he admitted to murdering his children and told her his last words. At the time Governor Rick Perry did not sway in his decisions to execute Willingham who at the time also replaced arson investigators. I believe there is doubt when it comes to the investigation brought forth by the arson team and the testimony of a convicted felon proven to be false produces a lot of murkiness when it comes the guilt of Cameron Todd Willingham. Even though his wife testified that he admitted to her that he killed his children and that he didn’t attempt to save his children in any capacity. I consider there cast enough shadow of doubt to conclude the individual to be not guilty. I consider that that there is a real chance that a innocent man could have been convicted and that he should not have been executed. They is a very real chance that he was used as a political pawn by those in power in Texas and he was used as a gambit to convince those in that community that they were tough on crime.