Yet
nagging doubts remain, stoked by two persistent skeptics: David Pimentel, a professor of ecology and agricultural sciences at Cornell University, and Tad Patzek, a professor of geoengineering from the University of California at Berkeley who started the UC Oil Consortium, an industry - sponsored research group.
Although the prosecutor had convinced a jury to sentence the pair to death based on questionable circumstantial evidence, the
nagging doubts about their guilt or innocence which had turned the case into something of a cause celebre have
remained unresolved to this very day.