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    Inferno: An Inquiry into the Willingham Fire
    Inferno: An Inquiry into the Willingham Fire
    Inferno: An Inquiry into the Willingham Fire
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    Inferno: An Inquiry into the Willingham Fire

    By J Bennett Allen

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    Instead of him saving her, Amber would save her daddy. She would save him by awakening him with her screams and pleas, by telling him of the fire, by taking his place in bed, by breathing in the smoke that would have filled his lungs instead of hers.

    The fire, however, would not be denied. Disguised first as justice and then as a needle, it would consume her father just as surely as it had Amber and her infant sisters.

    While much has been written of the trial, conviction and execution of Cameron Todd Willingham, the discussion has been limited to whether or not the fire that killed his children was caused by arson. This is the first book to investigate other possible causes of the fire that claimed initially three, and eventually four lives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLynn Allen
    Release dateApr 9, 2011
    ISBN9780984271658
    Inferno: An Inquiry into the Willingham Fire
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    J Bennett Allen

    I write of wrongful convictions and executions. My wife edits and publishes my work. We have three books now available on Amazon, each in print and Kindle format. The books are: The Skeptical Juror and The Trial of Byron Case The Skeptical Juror and The Trial of Cory Maye The Skeptical Juror and The Trial of Cameron Todd Willingham We have edited and published Smith's Guide to Habeas Corpus Relief, written by Zachary A. Smith, an inmate and jailhouse lawyer. We have seen far too many cases of prisoners defaulting on their right to appeal because they had no defense counsel or (worse) they had inept counsel who simply failed to file within the deadline. In most cases, the would-be petitioners are factually guilty of the crime for which they are imprisoned. In a disturbing number of the cases, the would-be petitioners are factually innocent of the crime for which they are imprisoned. In all cases, someone we have imprisoned has lost one of the few legal rights he or she has left. We hope Smith's Guide will mitigate the problem by allowing prisoners to work more closely with their counsel or, if need be, to file the petition for habeas corpus pro se. My next monograph will address the rate of wrongful convictions in American. You can read early drafts of most chapters at The Skeptical Juror blog (http://www.skepticaljuror.com). After reviewing a dozen estimates of the rate of wrongful conviction, and after presenting two separate analyses of my own, I argue that 10% of those we convict may in fact be innocent. Given that we have 2.5 million people incarcerated in this country, that means we may have a quarter of a million people behind bars for crimes they did not convict. Of those quarter million who may be wrongfully imprisoned, I am directly involved in efforts to free two of them: Byron Case (Missouri) and Michael Ledford (Virginia). You can learn of Byron Case from my book. You can learn of Michael Ledford from my blog.

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