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The color of his skin

Editor's note: Read Part 1 of this story, which describes the 1970 slaying of Joe Henson, the fight that preceded it, and the police investigation. Jeff Blackburn is a balding, blue-eyed,…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (744 words)

Cameron Todd Willingham, Texas, and the death penalty

The fire moved quickly through the house, a one-story wood-frame structure in a working-class neighborhood of Corsicana, in northeast Texas. Flames spread along the walls, bursting through doorways, blistering paint and tiles and furniture. Smoke pressed against the ceiling, then banked downward, seeping into each room and through crevices in the windows, staining the morning sky.
PUBLISHED: Sept. 7, 2009
LENGTH: 65 minutes (16409 words)
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