The New York Times, the Washington Post, and CNN would all be mentioning his name ten thousand times each every single time a new death penalty case came up.
Instead, what we get is "Well, there just HAS to be SOMEONE who was innocent who was put to death." Scheck thought he had found one in Roger Coleman in Virginia. The DNA was resubmitted. For months we read of now dead witnesses and tainted evidence. The little bleeding hearts of flower children everywhere were lifted when Mark Warner, in optimum-pandering mode, announced that he would hold a news conference to share the findings of the DNA.
Would Coleman be found innocent? The anti-execution crowd was certain he would.
Alas, a crestfallen Warner had to announce, at the risk of huge embarrassment, that Coleman had, in fact, committed the murder for which he had been returned to room temperature.
Now, lookee here. We've got another case. Four arson "experts", with the tools of present-day forensics, are put at the service of TIP to prove that a bunch of Texas hicks had executed an innocent man. An innocent man who stood outside and watched a fire he had set consume his own flesh and blood. Actually, he didn't stand. He leaned against his sports car, which he had carefully removed from the garage while the fire he had set was burning the flesh off his children.
Let me pick four other arson experts, or as many fire experts as I can find who will back the story that Willingham was rightly executed. I'll bet I could find four.
They still haven't found the holy grail, have they? No one can put forth a single name of an individual who was undoubtedly innocent of the crime for which he was executed.
And, you're right. If TIP and their sycophants had a name, it would be better known in America than Ted Bundy's.
Kind of like Matthew Shepherd, who had daily stories for years as the liberal media shilled for more hate speech and hate crime laws.
It sure would, and we wouldn't even be having this debate right now.
I'm not sure if it's still there now, but when I was attending Syracuse University 15 years ago, one of the buildings on campus had a big mural of Sacco and Vanzetti painted on the side of it, and on the mural was written a short version of Upton Sinclair's story about how these poor men were innocent victims of a brutal country.
Later on, Sinclair found out from the mouth of their defense lawyer that they were guilty and he had made up their alibis, and the son of a bitch never had the decency to tell anyone the real truth other than his own lawyer.