A politician who goes out of his way to ignore the innocence of a man he’s about to execute gets nothing but contempt from me. The bloodthirsty supporters of the politician who cheer the idea that he’s an executioner — pointedly ignoring evidence that an innocent man was executed — deserve the same contempt. Meet Rick Perry and his supporters.
Todd Willingham was a troubled man from a troubled background in Texas. He drank too much. He had been known to hit his wife. He had a string of minor run-ins with the law. But when his house burned, he lost the only things that he had seemed to care about — his three children.
Fire investigators concluded that the fire must have been arson, based on guesses and assumptions. Willingham didn’t have any insurance, so there was no financial motive. Still, he was charged with murdering his three children.
At trial, prosecutors claimed he killed his kids simply because they were getting int he way of his drinking and partying, but there was no evidence of that. The only credible evidence against him was that two fire investigators said the fire was arson.
No loneliness is worse than being with people, but not a specific one
As I quietly watch my world burn, I’m painfully aware this isn’t fine
Majority of Americans approve of feds snooping in name of security
My need to win isn’t always pretty, but it’s key to who I’ve always been
Can you look at this picture and not think we live in police state?
Theocracy? Secular liberty? Something else? Why not all of ’em?
When we don’t feel understood, we feel lonely even in a crowd
When people push inner buttons, it’s easy to spiral down into dark
Envy drives hatred for the wealthy, but I want to earn my way to riches