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Advanced Evidence Spring 2023 (4 credit)

"Trial by Fire: Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man?”

David Grann, The New Yorker (Sept. 7, 2009)

This is an investigation of the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in 2004 for setting a fire that killed his three children. (For new, additional evidence of Willingham’s innocence, see the reading for next class.)