>> In the American system, we are biased for innocence Not enough, in my opinion. Watch this PBS show about the story of Cameron Todd Willingham, put to death

>> In the American system, we are biased for innocence Not enough, in my opinion. Watch this PBS show about the story of Cameron Todd Willingham, put to death by Texas for the arson-murder of his three little girls: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/death-by-fire/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/death-by-fire/ The sole basis of conviction was arson science, and as the PBS show explains it isn't much of a science at all. This is a sad story of an innocent man put to death by the state of Texas. Five years later, with a Texas commission working inexorably toward a formal acknowledgment that the state had executed an innocent man — surely a watershed in the history of American capital punishment — Governor Rick Perry pulled a bureaucratic maneuver that effectively stopped the investigation in its tracks. More on that here: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-cameron-todd-willingham-rick-perry-execution-20140806-story.html http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-cameron-todd...