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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)

Michele Bachmann's Holy War

Illustration by Victor Juhasz ByMatt Taibbi June 22, 2011 8:00 AM ET Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and, as you consider the career and future presidential prospects of an incredible…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1204 words)
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