According to the Death Penalty Information Center, "they were unable to say how many of the 1,000 people executed since 1976 might have been innocent." Defense lawyers have already taken on a new case in which a client's life could still have been saved. An example is the story of Todd Willingham. In 1992, he was accused of burning down his house, killing his three children. The court had thought that he had killed them intentionally, but unfortunately he was sentenced to execution. After a few years, the court ruled that the evidence collected against him was false. The fire was accidental and he was found innocent. Unfortunately, it was too late to bring him back to life. Like many others executed while innocent, he was also a