Guerdie V Dorelien

Prof: Cindy

ENG:101   

4/2/18

      Investigators should have to pay for their mistake, so that innocent persecutors can have justice.

When I started to read trial by fire, according to Willingham’s reaction during the fire, I assume that Willingham was guilty, he wanted to kill his three children. I was asking why he had the refrigerator block the door, why he didn’t call 911 right away? And he should put more action to get the neighborhood attention when he got outside the door.  By continue to read I realize that I will be so wrong to assume something like that as the parent, and also according to what the new invasgators investigate in Willingham case in December2004 2 years after he had been persecuted.

             When I’m reading about Willingham back grown I believe that it was possible for him to set up the fire. Because he was an abandoned child, rose up with a step parent something most kids don’t like, whatever what the step parents could do to make them happy they will never happy, I’m one of them I was living with my step mother for years and I wasn’t happy for the whole time. I always wanted to be with my mother. I feel like Willingham was neglect by his parents if not he would have a better education and a better attention to prevent him from stealing and going to jail. And unlucky him he married someone who had almost the same life’s story, I feel like if those three babies didn’t die from the fire they would be suffer somehow in life according to their parent’s relationship in the house. because Stacy used to get beaten up during her pregnancy. A lot of people are sick with anger, sometimes they grow up with that anger and never change even they become parents. For some parents because they were abuse or neglect in their childhood, they don’t care about other people’s live even their own children they still have that anger against them.

                 Even though Willingham was not guilty in his children’s death I feel the refrigerator should be never place behind the door. Did he place it behind the door to block the helpers from getting inside of the easily? So he may think that refrigerators are very heavy if he has it behind the door, it may require a lot times, by the time to remove the refrigerator on the way the children could die. Or maybe the refrigerator was behind the door already this is where it belongs to? No one knows.

               I understand the technology is more advance now than how he was before, but there is so many ways Willingham could do to save those children lives if he didn’t have a cell phone. I’m pretty sure he had a home in the house. Back days most people didn’t have a cell phone but they had a home phone. The same way he could see his way to get out of the house, he should be able to see his way also to those children’s room to rescue them, especially if they all were in the same room. Why he couldn’t save them, at least one of them should rescued if he couldn’t carry all three of them at the same. If he really loved his children, his wife, even If he didn’t get executed, regrettable should pushed him to kill himself after a such situation. How will he feel about saving his lives and let those kids died?

                 When Willingham got out the door, why did he just stand crying “my babies, my babies” and without taking any action to get more attention from the neighborhoods? If he could wait until the house get enflamed so badly, for that eleven-year-old girl to see from two houses down; that’s mean he wanted to kill those babies. The same way the mother of that eleven year- old could come and broke one the children’s room window, he could do it. Or maybe he was too dummy to think about to do something, I understand that some men are so needy and very dependent. When they married, they leave everything on their wife, the way they count on their wives, they become dummy without realized it. May be Willingham acted that way not because he wanted to kill his children maybe he didn’t know what to do at the moment, not everyone is a fast responder to dangerous as he mentioned to his parents before he died he’s a coward.

             I realize I was wrong to assume that Willingham wanted to kill his children by his reaction to the scene during the fire like the investigators and some neighborhoods believed. According to his words, I believe that he was innocent. Even though everybody has the defensive words to defend themselves face to a situation; I believe that he was innocent especially when he said “people who have never been in a fire don’t understand why those who survive often can’t rescue the victims.” After saying that he really touches my conscious and make me think in a different way, I feel like what he said was true sometimes it is easy for some people to see their reactions through other people’ situation.  plus according to 2004 and 2005 reports that they had no scientific basis for claiming that the fire was arson. To me, those investigators wasn’t 100% sure that Willingham was the one set the fire. Even though he could be the one according to fact they had, but it wasn’t 100% sure.

                In conclusion, I think it was wrong back days to have a terrible sentence like execution for a criminal. Without a good way like in advance technology to ensure that the criminals are really deserve a such a sentence. It was very important for those detectors to not go only with the basics fact they had and the witnesses’ ideas to condemned someone, because someone may don’t like other people and give the wrong information about that person. Because of so many lives’ detectors cause innocently I feel like they should have a kind of penalty against those investigators and judges’ after condemned an innocent.