(Numbers 35:29-30) " 'These are to be legal requirements for you throughout the generations to come, wherever you live. " 'Anyone who kills a person is to be put to death as a murderer only on the testimony of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

Here-in is the problem with America's legal system when it comes to capital punishment.

There must be two eye-witnesses.

God is so wise and good.

To Cameron Todd Willingham's credit, he did not accept the bribe from the government - even to save his own life.

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Willingham was convicted in 1992 of setting a fire that killed his three children (including two-year-old Amber, pictured on Willingham's shoulders). He proclaimed his innocence throughout his trial and refused an offer to plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence, saying "I ain't gonna plead to something I didn't do, especially killing my own kids."

Cameron Todd Willingham in his cell on death row, in 1994. He insisted upon his innocence in the deaths of his children and refused an offer to plead guilty in return for a life sentence. Photograph by Ken Light