Martin and Dunn advised Willingham that he should accept the offer, but he refused.
In December, 2004, questions about the scientific evidence in the Willingham case began to surface.
The first cases that are being reviewed by the commission are those of Willingham and Willis.
Amber was still in bed, Willingham said, so he went back into his room to sleep.
At the time that Webb came forward against Willingham, he was facing charges of robbery and forgery.
Aside from the scientific evidence of arson, the case against Willingham did not stand up to scrutiny.
Several guards strapped Willingham down with leather belts, snapping buckles across his arms and legs and chest.
During his first years on death row, Willingham had pleaded with his lawyer, David Martin, to rescue him.
And the firemen and police on the scene had described Willingham frantically trying to get into the house.
Willingham had fled out the front door, and the fire simply followed the ventilation path, toward the opening.
Bobby Parnell allowed an RBI double to Josh Willingham in the ninth, then held on for his first save.
Willingham and his wife, who was twenty-two years old, had virtually no money.
After Willingham filed another writ of habeas corpus, this time in federal court, he was granted a temporary stay.
Willingham was held in isolation in a sixty-square-foot cell, twenty-three hours a day.
While she was in an intensive-care unit, she had tried to get a message to Willingham, but apparently failed.
Hurst found it hard to imagine Willingham pouring accelerant on the front porch, where neighbors could have seen him.
On February 13th, four days before Willingham was scheduled to be executed, he got a call from Reaves, his attorney.
Many of them, including the Barbees, remained convinced that Willingham was guilty, but several of his friends and relatives had doubts.
Finally, Vasquez turned to Willingham and asked a seemingly random question: had he put on shoes before he fled the house?
Willingham had grown close to some of his prison mates, even though he knew that they were guilty of brutal crimes.
Ultimately, the authorities concluded that Willingham was a man without a conscience whose serial crimes had climaxed, almost inexorably, in murder.
Willingham had often not treated her well, she recalled, and after his incarceration she had left him for a man who did.
Meanwhile, her daughter Buffie had reported witnessing Willingham on the porch breaking a window, in an apparent effort to reach his children.
In his first statement, he had depicted Willingham as a devastated father who had to be repeatedly restrained from risking his life.
Several, like Father Monaghan, initially portrayed Willingham as devastated by the fire.
She and Willingham had not fought, and were preparing for the holiday.
Scripted by Calder Willingham from his 1972 novel, this piece of screwball Americana pokes along with an alternately prickly and tender charm.
As Willingham looked at the group, he kept asking where Gilbert was.
It was hard to believe that Willingham, who had otherwise insisted on his innocence, had suddenly confessed to an inmate he barely knew.
With Willingham on second, Parnell retired Morneau on a flyout and threw a called third strike past Ryan Doumit to end the game.
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