The Execution of an Innocent Man: Questioning the Reliability of Arson Investigations in the Texas Justice System

Death by fire Name Institutional affiliations Date 'Death by fire' is a film based on a true story that tends to question Texas's justice system through the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham. Willingham was accused of killing his three daughters through what investigations conclude as arson. The story of Willingham brought some controversy in that upon revisits of the evidence. It could be possible that wrong conviction was done and arising new evidence and queries on the evidence presented before the trial, an innocent man was executed. The investigations as per the film seem rushed as if arson could be the only possibility of a fire. Witnesses changed their stories, and the prosecutor makes a big deal of music's taste for the defendant connecting it to Satanism. The film demonstrates that the firefighters did the investigations to the case through what is referred to as fire fighting experience. In fact, such investigations should have been done by experts who would interpret the happenings from a scientific or arson point of view. The film also demonstrates that a rogue prosecutor, through a rogue psychiatrist determination to end a man's life through hasty conclusions at play. Through inexperience, the investigations concluded that Willingham had been involved in satanic cults, making connections with the posters and the genre of music he listened to. Experts asserted that Willingham’s daughters had died of instant ignition of flammable material in the room, commonl