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Yes. Well, most likely, almost certainly.Cameron Todd Willingham was executed by the State of Texas in 1991 for the alleged murder by arson of his 3 children. The problem is, the conclusion of arson due to burn patterns and alligator charring, was found to be false in later experiments. You see, for decades (centuries?) police and fire investigators relied on what they had been taught by their predecessors and trainers. If someone drew a conclusion, and taught their underlings that “x pattern means y happened”, then most underlings accepted it as truth, when in fact it was often just the conclusion of that one person. Experimental evidence in forensic work has been a LONG time developing, and it’s still developing. We are still finding out that long-held theories aren’t as iron-clad as we thought, and that “x” pattern could have actually been caused by numerous things instead of just 1 or 2.This article mentions several things that had long been taken as “proof” of use of accelerant (aka arson):Dispelling Myths of Origin & Cause Investigations - Expert ArticleSo, when Willingham’s wife/mother of his children was out shopping for Christmas presents, the house burned, killing their 2 year old, and 1 year old twins. Prosecutors charged that Willingham set the fire and killed the children in an attempt to cover up abuse of the girls, even though there was no evidence of child abuse. A psychologist claimed Willingham’s rock n roll posters (Iron Maiden & Led Zeppelin) signified “violence and death” and the Led Zeppelin fallen angel poster was an indicator of cult-type activities (this was during the Satanic Panic, when law enforcement, religious fundamentalists, and other deranged people were making up all kinds of nonsense about satanic cults sacrificing children and animals and being a danger to all. It was a bunch of hooey, but taken very seriously by people who should have been able to reason a tad bit better.)“Psychiatrist James Grigson, known by the moniker "Dr. Death" for his repeated testimony as an expert witness in which he recommended the death penalty, said that a man of Willingham's criminal history was an "extremely severe sociopath" and was incurable. Grigson had served as an expert witness for the prosecution in murder trials across the state of Texas. Prior to his death, he was expelled by the American Psychiatric Association and the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians for unethical conduct.The APA said that Grigson had violated the organization's ethics code byarriving at a psychiatric diagnosis without first having examined the individuals in question, and for indicating, while testifying in court as an expert witness, that he could predict with 100 per cent certainty that the individuals would engage in future violent acts. “However, those who knew Willingham did not draw the same conclusion. It is true that Willingham was not a saint: he was allegedly abusive towards his wife, but not his children. “His former probation officer said he had never demonstrated bizarre or sociopathic behavior and that "He was probably one of my favorite kids." Bebe Bridges, a former judge who was often on the "opposite side" of Willingham in the legal system, and who had sent him to jail for stealing, said that she could not imagine him killing his children. "He was polite, and he seemed to care," she said.Willingham was convicted (no wonder, given what the prosecutors alleged, and “medical professionals” claimed). His appeals were largely ignored, and he was executed in 2004.But there had been significant research into burn patterns and what they indicated (see the “Dispelling Myths of Origin” article linked above) in the 1990s, and forensic fire experts were convinced that the case against Willingham rested on junk science, inaccurate claims. “Fire investigator Gerald L. Hurst reviewed the case documents, including the trial transcriptions and an hour-long videotape of the aftermath of the fire scene. Hurst said in December 2004 that "There's nothing to suggest to any reasonable arson investigator that this was an arson fire. It was just a fire."In June 2009, the State of Texas ordered a re-examination of the case. In August 2009, eighteen years after the fire and five years after Willingham's execution, a report conducted by Dr. Craig Beyler, hired by the Texas Forensic Science Commission to review the case, found that "a finding of arson could not be sustained". Beyler said key testimony from a fire marshal at Willingham's trial was "hardly consistent with a scientific mind-set and is more characteristic of mystics or psychics".”Remember when Rick Perry was asked during the 2016 campaign if he ever regretted an execution? He said no, he couldn’t think of any. Funny, because as governor of Texas, Rick Perry actually replaced 3 of the members of the Texas Forensic Science Commission the day before their review was to be released, in an attempt to get the commission to change their findings that arson could not be substantiated.By 2016, it was well known that the State of Texas almost certainly executed an innocent man, and at the very least executed a man whose guilt had not been proven. Neither Rick Perry nor George W. Bush, and certainly not the buffoons now heading our state, have ever admitted the error of this, and certainly not their complicity with killing a probably-innocent man. Cameron Todd Willingham - WikipediaGeorge Stinney was another person, a boy more than a man, who was executed for a crime he did not commit. George Stinney - Wikipedia But then, when you look at African-American hangings, execution, and lynchings during the first half of the 20th Century and before, there were certainly many, many more who were killed, if not executed by order of the court, they were killed by law enforcement or allowed to be removed from the jail and murdered by mobs, or they never even made it to jail and were killed because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Brothers Thomas and Meeks Griffin were two such innocent men who were executed by the state. South Carolina pardons black brothers convicted of 1913 killingTexas has killed others who were later shown to be almost certainly innocent of the crimes for which they were convicted and executed. Ruben Cantu, Ruben Cantu - Wikipedia Carlos deLuna Carlos DeLuna - Wikipedia and David Wayne Spence The Wrong Man were convicted of crimes they probably did not commit. Now, that doesn’t mean these guys were choir boys. Cantu, for example, was in a gang stealing cars and selling them to chop shops. He had shot other people. But it’s likely that he was railroaded because one policeman had it out for him, and got detectives to build a case around him, rather than find him during the course of an investigation.Florida executed Jesse Tafero who, while certainly a criminal (he was on parole when he and his family were with a man who killed 2 troopers), was not the one who shot the gun that murdered these two men. In fact, he apparently had not shot any gun that day. Tafero and his wife were both sentenced to death, while the man who actually murdered the officers was sentenced to life in prison. Tafero was executed, the state eventually found that the evidence against his wife, the same evidence that had been used to convict and kill Tafero, was invalid, so she was released. The man who actually fired the shots that killed the two law enforcement officer was released on parole, 18 years after the crime. When Jesse Tafero was executed in 1990, jailers used a synthetic sponge instead of a natural sponge between the top of his head and the electrocution cap. The natural sponge holds water better and is more conductive. Six inch flames shot out of the top of Tafero’s head, and it is claimed the smell of burnt flesh could be smelled in that wing of the prison days afterward. It took 3 jolts of the electric chair, and 7 minutes, to kill Jesse Tafero. It’s alleged that he was an inspiration for Stephen King’s _The Green Mile_. Jesse Tafero - WikipediaIt is likely that when Missouri executed Larry Griffin, they executed the wrong man for murder. Investigation Finds Executed Man May Have Been InnocentThis page gives a few others who were likely innocent of the crimes for which they were executed, but it can’t really be proven conclusively: Executed But Possibly InnocentI’ve heard of numerous other convictions, usually given a sentence of life in prison, where people were convicted of murder, when the only “evidence” against them were things such as long hair, smoking marijuana, listening to various kinds of music (heavy metal, punk, psychodelic, you name it), being angry and disaffected (you know, like 90% of late teens/young adults). Using such flimsy evidence, people have been convicted of crimes like kidnapping, rape, and murder, when there was (later, because a lot of these were in the 70’s and 80’s) no DNA of theirs anywhere near the crime scene or on the victim, nothing to link the accused with the victim, plenty of evidence showing someone else did it, etc. Jurors (and others) assumed police were honest. Jurors and others assumed that if a prosecutor was prosecuting a person for a serious crime, they must have substantial evidence that the person committed that crime.People believed law enforcement when they claimed that Satanists were everywhere, defiling babies and sacrificing children. Accused served decades in prison for sexual child abuse which they did not commit, or even if ultimately found not guilty, their lives were ruined. See the McMartin Preschool case: “The McMartin Preschool Abuse Trial, the longest and most expensive criminal trial in American history, should serve as a cautionary tale. When it was all over, the government had spent seven years and $15 million dollars investigating and prosecuting a case that led to no convictions. More seriously, the McMartin case left in its wake hundreds of emotionally damaged children, as well as ruined careers for members of the McMartin staff. No one paid a bigger price than Ray Buckey, one of the principal defendants in the case, who spent five years in jail awaiting trial for a crime (most people recognize today) he never committed.” A toddler allegedly told his mother that 25 year old Ray Buckey had molested him. Even though an examination of the toddler showed no signs of physical or sexual abuse, and he couldn’t identify Buckey from a lineup, Buckey’s home was raided, and things such as a rubber duckie, a graduation robe, a teddy bear, and Playboy magazines as solid evidence that the man had sexually molested this boy. (Because what innocent 25 year old man has Playboys lying around, right?) The McMartin preschool case was started and kept aflame by a deranged drama queen who thrived on attention, and made up a story about her son being molested. It cost people years in prison, ruined reputations, ruined lives, tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal defense fees, and it cost California $15 million, all because a drama queen wanted attention. The McMartin Preschool Abuse Trial: A CommentaryFran and Dan Keller, who ran another preschool outside Austin, Texas, were similarly accused of grotesque horrors during the Satanic Panic. Oak Hill satanic ritual abuse trial - Wikipedia Children were coached to claim all kinds of horrible treatment by the Kellers. They were sentenced to 48 years in prison, but were released after 22 years, when the evidence against them completely fell apart upon examination. There was no physical evidence of child abuse, the children had been coached, one adult had, under intense, prolonged police examination, pled guilty to child abuse, but recanted the next day. By the time Fran and Dan were released from prison, they were in their 60’s, and had nothing. Their home and business had been confiscated by the state; all the savings they had in the world had gone to legal defense. They were eventually found “factually innocent” 4 years after they were released from prison, but during those 4 years, before they got any reparation whatsoever for their false imprisonment, these two crippled 60+ year olds who had been worn down in the prison system, had to try to make ends meet as best they could in a city where 1 bedroom apartments go for $1200 and up.So even though the Kellers and the staff of McMartin Preschool were not sentenced to death, their lives were completely ruined by mass hysteria and false claims by law enforcement and medical “experts” who claimed they knew with certainty, things about which they didn’t know jack shit. Words like “indicative of” and “consistent with” are nebulous. Eating is consistent with life. That doesn’t mean I broke into a grocery store and took all the food. Every time I hear that a gun found in someone’s possession is “consistent with” a bullet from a crime scene, I cringe. I asked my friend Google how many .22 rifles there are in the world, and then in the United States. Google failed me on that one. Oh, it gave me plenty of info on the .22, like it’s the most common caliber in the world, but even Google, with all its computing power, seems to be clueless on the number of .22 rifles that exist in this country, much less the world. And Google knows (virtually) everything. I did, however, find a link for an article that tried to figure out how many “assault rifles” there are in the U.S. It’s impossible to give a number, because there is no standard definition of “assault rifle”. It’s generally assumed to be a semi-automatic capable of holding a magazine of more than 5 or 6 bullets, but beyond that, there are various characteristics that some people describe as “assault weapons” while others don’t. Having said that, when looking at “modern sporting rifle” (which loosely overlaps with what people generally consider “assault rifles”), “according to a 2015 report by a trade group, roughly one in 10 guns produced each year is a modern sporting rifle. In raw numbers, American gunmakers produced and imported 8.5 million such rifles between 1990 and 2012, and about one and two million annually every year since. Do the math and it works out to between 15 and 20 million modern sporting rifles now in circulation, which includes those owned and used by law enforcement.” I believe that a great many of these, though certainly not all, take a .223 caliber bullet. Other popular cartridges are the 7.62x39mm M43 round favored by the Soviet bloc countries in their AK-47s, and the standard NATO round of 5.56x45mm found in most U.S. military weapons (the kind most soldiers carry—-of course there are bigger guns which take much larger rounds).So having explained all that, if someone testified that they found a gun in someone’s possession that was “consistent with” the bullet found at the crime scene, but the only consistency was that it was a .22 bullet, what does that mean? It’s like the accused, AND VIRTUALLY EVERY OTHER FIREARM-OWNING AMERICAN, is in the suspect pool. That’s meaningless “evidence”. But if bullets fired from the suspect weapon have lands and grooves that very closely match the bullet found at the crime scene, *that’s* significant. Likewise, if a .223 bullet was found, and it was claimed that it was “consistent” with a .223 rifle, well, so? There are LOTS of .223 rifles out there. Very popular round. But again, if there is more substantial evidence tying THAT firearm to THAT bullet, then it is very meaningful. But if a bullet was a 2mm Kolibri, and a suspect was found with a 2mm Kolibri pistol, then THAT would be strong evidence, as there were only about 1000 of the 2mm Kolibris ever produced, and the entire line was discontinued in 1938. If a 2mm Kolibri was found at a crime scene, then I think it’s safe to say that every 2mm Kolibri pistol owner in the country is suspect, because there are so darned few of them.I know that was a very long digression. It just goes to show that “experts” use all kind of language when testifying, that conveys FAR more significance than the evidence actually has. At Cameron Willingham’s trial, the fire investigator testified that there was “definite” use of an accelerant, when in reality, the only evidence of an accelerant found was on the porch, close to the door, where they had left a gas can for the lawnmower. Sure, the gas can leaked from the heat of the fire, and gas (accelerant) leaked out onto the area around the gas can. That did not mean that Willingham set his house on fire. Doctors testified that a vaginal tear on a child was “definitive proof” of sexual abuse, then later discovered that they were completely wrong—-it was not definitive proof, there were many other ways a girl could sustain such an injury. Such definitive, declarative testimony by “experts” can not only send a person to prison for life, it can killa fella.

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Can I take a few additional modules of accounting to gain a US university degree when I have an Australian university degree?You may be able to take accounting courses in the US at some colleges as a post baccalaureate student. If this is allowed, you would just take the courses at full tuition amount but you wouldn’t get any degree or certificate. You would get grades and could get a transcript with just those credits on it. You can list on your resume under education, “Post-baccalaureate Accounting Hours: _____, University of __________. The school does matter.Other options are to fully enroll and meet their (with your waivers as degree holder) course requirements for a second degree in Accounting or to get a Master’s in Accounting. If you are going to sit for a CPA exam, then a master’s degree would be your best option and a “leg up” for future employment options.