The family of Cameron “Todd” Willingham, unjustly executed in 2004, urge to test DNA in Sedley Alley’s case—which was never done before Alley was executed in 2006.
We are members of a club that should never have any members. We are the family of a man who was wrongfully convicted of murder and executed despite clear and convincing evidence of his innocence. We fear that April Alley, Sedley Alley’s daughter, may also be a member of this terrible club.
After Todd’s conviction, the District Attorney illegally reduced the sentence of the jailhouse informant who falsely testified that Todd confessed to him about starting the fire by spreading accelerant and hid that fact, and the informant’s efforts to recant, from Todd’s lawyers. Todd was only 36 when Texas took his life by lethal injection and shattered the Willingham family forever.
The courts refused Mr. Alley’s request. No one can imagine the anger and frustration that the Alley family must have felt, knowing that government officials had critical scientific evidence in their possession and they looked the other way -- except the Willingham family, because we experienced the same nightmare. April watched her father’s execution. His last words were: “I love you, April. Be good and stay strong.
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