A Competent Defense

The Todd Willingham Case continues to gather attention. This is a ten-minute interview with Willingham’s defense attorney. His defense attorney.

Ta-Nehisi:

It’s like watching a root-docter, who’s just performed a heart transplant, try to explain why the patient is dead. I deeply suspect that this is all unexceptional. There is no fool-proof anything in this world–least of all a death penalty.

I am lying here with my jaw in my lap. This is the government we are trusting with the power of life and death.

That ticker on the death penalty just moved a step closer to oppose.