Ernest Ray Willis (August 17, 1945 – January 7, 2021) was an American man who spent 17 years on death row for an alleged double murder by arson before being exonerated in 2004. Convicted of murder after two women died in a fire in the West Texas home where he was living at the time, Willis was sentenced to death in 1987. In 1991, another death row inmate, David Martin Long, confessed to starting the fire.
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