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Texas’ GOP Attorney General Spikes Investigation Into Rick Perry’s Potential Execution Of An Innocent Man | In 2004, GOP Gov. Rick Perry’s Texas executed Cameron Todd Willingham, despite the fact that significant evidence emerged indicating that Willingham is innocent. In 2009, Perry replaced three members of a commission that was supposed to investigate the execution with political allies who threw sand in the investigation’s gears. Now, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott (R) has done Perry one better, issuing a legal opinion saying that the commission is powerless to conduct any investigation whatsoever into the Willingham execution.