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	"The Exonerated" 2003
		Those abuses include the suppression of evidence, the corruption and poor training of forensics experts, the lack of good legal counsel for the poor, the blatant flouting of accepted police and legal procedures, the issue of racism, the use of fear and coercion and a dangerous lack of knowledge by the accused over their rights.
		With ``The Exonerated,'' Thomas has found a vehicle to merge both her commitments to social activism and to working in the theater.
		On the floor are the actors representing the six exonerated and two women who serve as three wives; elevated are two men who enact assorted cops, lawyers, and judges in the flashbacks to the proceedings that landed the title characters where they didn?t belong.
	members.tripod.com /~Cimc95/exonerated.html (4206 words)

	The exonerated - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		"The Exonerated," a play by Jensen and Jessica Blank, is a series of intersecting monologues culled from their 40 interviews with former death-row inmates who were eventually proven innocent and released.
		Like the 88 Americans who were wrongfully convicted in capital crimes and have been exonerated since 1973, the play's 12 subjects ("just like in a jury," says Blank) were freed through an appeals process that left them imprisoned on death row for as long as 20 years.
		All participants in "The Exonerated" are volunteers who Blank and Jensen rallied to the cause.
	dir.salon.com /news/feature/2000/10/20/exonerated/index.html (757 words)

	TimesDispatch.com \| CHART: Wrongly convicted in Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Edward Honaker, exonerated in 1994, was convicted of a 1984 abduction and rape in Nelson County.
		Walter Snyder Jr., exonerated in 1993, was convicted in 1986 of raping a neighbor in Alexandria.
		Earl Washington Jr., exonerated in 2000, was sentenced to death for the 1982 rape and murder of a Culpeper woman.
	www.timesdispatch.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031781856687 (414 words)

	The Exonerated @ CATCO
		The Exonerated tells the powerful real-life stories of several of these people in their own words.
		For each, the average number of years between receiving a death sentence and exoneration was nine years.
		The stories of Gary, Sunny, Kerry and three others are told in their own words in The Exonerated, where words take center stage on a minimalist set.
	www.catco.org /exonerated.htm (223 words)

	People's Weekly World Newspaper Online - Exonerated: Powerful anti-death penalty theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		“Exonerated” authors Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen traveled across the country in 2000, interviewing 40 of the then 89 former death row prisoners (there are now at least 102).
		Kerry Max Cook was arrested for killing a neighbor based on a thumbprint he left in her apartment the one time he visited for 15 minutes three months before the murder.
		As serious as the subject matter is, “The Exonerated” is not without humor and, as the authors note, is not “a play about anger and revenge [but] really about strength, hope, redemption and forgiveness.” Don’t miss a chance to see it if you can.
	www.pww.org /article/articleprint/2181 (778 words)

	'Exonerated' blurs facts about death penalty case
		It is not surprising that "The Exonerated" includes Tafero's story, for his case is thorny and his death raises a terrible specter: an innocent man in a botched electrocution.
		In "The Exonerated," Tafero's story is told by an actress playing Sunny Jacobs, Tafero's lover and his co-defendant in the crime he died for.
		According to court records, she entered a plea of guilty to second-degree murder and was released with time served after an appeals court found that prosecutors had withheld potentially exculpatory evidence from her defense.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/12/07/EDGGA3DRPT1.DTL&type=printable (809 words)

	Home Page
		We are introduced to Robert, an African-American horse groomer who spent seven years on Florida's death row for the murder of a white woman before evidence emerged that the victim was found clutching hair from a Caucasian attacker.
		In 2002, Blank and Jensen were invited to present The Exonerated for Governor George Ryan of Illinois, as he was considering whether to commute the sentences of over 140 Illinois death row inmates.
		That performance took place at the 2002 National Gathering of the Death Row Exonerated, for an audience including over 40 exonerated death row inmates, Governor Ryan, and several members of the Illinois State Legislature, as well as major religious leaders.
	www.theexonerated.com (423 words)

	The Exonerated, a CurtainUp review
		Unlike Laramie, which focuses on a single case, The Exonerated uses the stories of six of its interview subjects to represent not only the forty people with whom they met but the eighty-nine people who were exonerated in the summer of 2000 when they took their tape recorders on the road.
		Exonerated, by the way, does not mean that you are declared unconditionally innocent that that you've been freed because it turns out that you have not been proven guilty beyond a doubt.
		However, with a strong assist from director Bob Balaban, the cross-cutting from one monologist to another and the power of the words (condensed,combined and extrapolated for theatrical impact but using the words from the authors' transcripts) is such that those who come expecting a play and not a lecture won't feel short changed.
	www.curtainup.com /exonerated.html (1267 words)

	The exonerated - Salon
		Tafero's exonerated wife, Sonia "Sunny" Jacobs (who will be played by Susan Sarandon), is the only female former death-row inmate featured in the play.
		(Blank and Jensen also included the stories of four wives and girlfriends of the exonerated.) Jacobs and Tafero were sentenced to death in Florida in 1976 for the murder of two policemen at a highway rest stop.
		By the time she was released, her husband wasn't the only loss Jacobs had suffered: Both of her parents had been killed in a plane crash en route to visit her in jail.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2000/10/20/exonerated/?pn=3 (584 words)

	The Exonerated at Liberty Hall Theatre - 2006 (archive) Dublin Theatre Festival, Dublin
		Those 16 years were taken away from Sunny Jacobs, convicted and sentenced to death for a crime she did not commit.
		The Exonerated shares the true stories of six innocent survivors of death row.
		The Exonerated relates what it is like to be wrongly accused and convicted, what it is like to be on death row, and what it is like to get out and be in the world again.
	www.dublintheatrefestival.com /festival_programme/2006/The_Exonerated/184.htm (293 words)

	The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Exonerated shares the true stories of six innocent survivors of death row.
		The Exonerated concluded it's full production run in March, 2004, after running for a year and a half at the 45 Bleecker Theater.
		The Exonerated also toured the country over the course of 9 months, stopping in Philadelphia, New Orleans, San Francisco, Ft. Worth, and Minneapolis, among others, and featured performances from Robin Williams, Brian Dennehy, Mia Farrow, Stockard Channing, Avery Brooks, and many more.
	www.45bleecker.com /exonerated.html (137 words)

	Gothamist: Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, playwrights, The Exonerated, authors, Living Justice
		These talented activists and artists are the force behind the anti-death penalty play The Exonerated, and have recently authored a behind-the-scenes peek into their creative process and political awakening entitled Living Justice: Love, Freedom and the Making of The Exonerated (Atria, February 2005).
		The play was culled from their interviews with over 40 exonerated death row inmates, stemming from a symposium they attended on the death penalty at Columbia University, which sparked their interest and gave them a vision for the play they wanted to create.
		Our job as playwrights was to tell the stories of the exonerated people as purely and simply as we could; we felt strongly that their journeys are so compelling that inserting our own journey into the narrative of the play would have weakened its power as a piece of theater.
	www.gothamist.com /archives/2005/04/11/jessica_blank_and_erik_jensen_playwrights_the_exonerated_authors_living_justice.php (4189 words)

	Exonerated prisoners face tough start - 08/26/04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Life After Exoneration is believed to be the first program to focus exclusively on the needs of such prisoners after they're freed.
		Life After Exoneration recently surveyed 58 such former prisoners and found that 40 percent struggled with depression (80 percent reported having been physically injured or attacked in prison).
		The measure would require the state to notify exonerated former prisoners of their potential eligibility for compensation; provide interim health, housing and other services for up to three years; and fund a case management agency, such as Life After Exoneration.
	www.detnews.com /2004/nation/0408/26/a15-254861.htm (1473 words)

	The Innocence Project: Case Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This section provides a brief summary and additional resources for each of the postconviction DNA exonerations that occur in the United States.
		The stories that accompany these exonerations also underline a point that often gets forgotten when the criminal justice system is discussed: wrongful convictions are paid for with lives.
		The problem of false confessions has been further illuminated by the exoneration of five men - Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, and Kharey Wise - who were wrongfully convicted of a brutal attack in New York's Central Park.
	www.innocenceproject.org /case/index.php (398 words)

	NCADP: National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
		More than 118 people have been exonerated from death row since 1972, including 21 from the state of Florida and 18 from the state of Illinois.
		It was not until December of that year that prosecutors and the FBI obtained DNA evidence that exonerated Smith of the crime.
		Finally, in 2002, DNA testing was performed on the blood and saliva present at the crime scene, and Krone was exonerated.
	www.ncadp.org /fact_sheet4.html (1437 words)

	Exonerated in mob killing, men seek retribution from government - Boston.com
		Joseph "The Animal" Barboza was a known mob assassin responsible for numerous hits during Boston's gangland wars of the 1960s.
		He was also so vital to the FBI's push to crack the mob that the agency allowed him to frame four men for murder, attorneys for the men said Thursday.
		BOSTON --Joseph "The Animal" Barboza was a known mob assassin responsible for numerous hits during Boston's gangland wars of the 1960s.
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/11/16/exonerated_in_mob_killing_men_seek_retribution_from_government_1163708726 (853 words)

	Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
		THE STORY: Culled from interviews, letters, transcripts, case files and the public record, THE EXONERATED tells the true stories of six wrongfully convicted survivors of death row in their own words.
		In this ninety-minute intermissionless play, we meet Kerry, a sensitive Texan brutalized on death row for twenty-two years before being exonerated by DNA evidence; we meet Gary, a Midwestern organic farmer condemned for the murder of his own parents and later exonerated when two motorcycle-gang members confess.
		We meet Robert, an African-American horse groomer who spent seven years on death row for the murder of a white woman before evidence emerges that the victim was found clutching hair from a Caucasian attacker.
	www.dramatists.com /cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=3204 (232 words)

	What exonerated prisoners need - The Boston Globe
		If passed as is, exonerated applicants must prove "actual innocence" not only of the crime for which they were exonerated but of any alleged crime prosecutors might have charged based on underlying events that occurred years or decades earlier.
		In some cases, even if compensation is ordered, a wrongful conviction may still appear on a criminal background check, affecting applications for jobs or public housing, extending losses far beyond the time of exoneration and compensation.
		We owe it to these men to do everything in our power to correct our errors and remove the barriers we have placed in their way.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2004/03/16/what_exonerated_prisoners_need (269 words)

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		Nonetheless, even with these caveats, it is still plain that forensic DNA testing is prospectively exonerating a substantial number of innocent individuals who would have otherwise stood trial, frequently facing the difficult task of refuting mistaken eyewitness identification by a truthful crime victim who would rightly deserve juror sympathy.
		Finally, notwithstanding the research opportunities presented by the postarrest and postconviction DNA exoneration cases as to how wrongful accusations and convictions occur, the most significant implication of these cases is already apparent -- the extent of factually incorrect convictions in our system must be much greater than anyone wants to believe.
		Postarrest and postconviction DNA exonerations have invariably involved analysis of sexual assault evidence (sperm), even if a murder charge was involved, that proved the existence of mistaken eyewitness identification.
	www.ncjrs.gov /txtfiles/dnaevid.txt (19041 words)

	Stories of The Exonerated
		THE EXONERATED tells the heart-wrenching real-life stories of six death row prisoners who were wrongly convicted and later proven innocent.
		The injustices endured by Cook and the others are made apparent in The Exonerated, but the stories do much more than tell the details of their cases.
		Based entirely on court testimony, interviews and letters, the original play was inspired by a Campaign to End the Death Penalty workshop at an anti-death penalty conference in New York City several years ago.
	www.socialistworker.org /2005-1/528/528_09_Exonerated.shtml (346 words)

	Community Theater of Terre Haute, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Culled from interviews, letters, transcripts, case files and the public record, The Exonerated tells the true stories of six wrongfully convicted survivors of death row—in their own words.
		Using transcripts from interviews with the exonerated, court documents, and police records, the pair have woven together a compelling set of narratives.
		Wilson was the second person to be exonerated in 2005, and the sixth person to be exonerated in Pennsylvania since 1982.
	www.ctth.org /pages/exonerated.htm (1039 words)

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		Nonetheless, even with these caveats, it is still plain that forensic DNA testing is prospectively exonerating a substantial number of innocent individuals who would have otherwise stood trial, frequently facing the difficult task of refuting mistaken eyewitness identification by a truthful crime victim who would rightly deserve juror sympathy.
		Finally, notwithstanding the research opportunities presented by the postarrest and postconviction DNA exoneration cases as to how wrongful accusations and convictions occur, the most significant implication of these cases is already apparent -- the extent of factually incorrect convictions in our system must be much greater than anyone wants to believe.
		Postarrest and postconviction DNA exonerations have invariably involved analysis of sexual assault evidence (sperm), even if a murder charge was involved, that proved the existence of mistaken eyewitness identification.
	www.ncjrs.org /txtfiles/dnaevid.txt (19041 words)

	Theater: Listening to the exonerated
		he Exonerated” is a show without scenery, costumes and even action, but by the end of the 90-minute performance I was in tears.
		Then in what was possibly the most dramatic moment in an afternoon filled with them, he said he wanted to acknowledge some important guests.
		Audience members were invited to stay and talk to the exonerated and the actors, but few did.
	www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives/102502/102502m.htm (1163 words)

	Review: 'The Exonerated'
		Derived entirely from interviews, the play tells the story of four men and one woman put on death row for crimes they did not commit and for which they were subsequently exonerated.
		The Exonerated is difficult to criticize objectively if you strongly believe, as I do, that the death penalty should be abolished.
		Like most productions of The Exonerated, including those in Los Angeles and New York, director Greg Kolack stages the play simply, although he sometimes seems to move his actors around simply to move them, not as motivated by the script.
	www.backstage.com /bso/news_reviews/midwest/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003117598 (439 words)

	Drake News Releases
		His conviction came as a result of a false confession, which was obtained through police coercion and inappropriate interrogation methods.
		Ochoa, who was exonerated through the efforts of the Wisconsin Innocence Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School, will speak at a panel discussion sponsored by Drake University Law School on "Issues of Eyewitness Identification and Exoneration" on Wednesday, Jan. 26, at the Neal and Bea Smith Law Center, 2400 University Ave.
		After the panels are adjourned, individuals in attendance are invited to attend a special presentation of “The Exonerated” at 7 p.m.
	www.drake.edu /newsevents/releases/jan05/012405panel.html (427 words)

	Drake News Releases
		Their play tells the stories of six innocent people who endured from two to 22 years on death row and were eventually exonerated, often thanks to an attorney who took on their case pro bono, or law school students seeking to right a wrong.
		The DNA tests showed Avery could not have committed the crime and indicated the assailant was Gregory A. Allen, who is serving a 60-year sentence for another sexual assault and kidnapping that occurred in 1995.
		Through the efforts of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, he was exonerated through the use of DNA tests after serving12 years in prison.
	www.drake.edu /newsevents/releases/jan05/011105exonerated.html (1076 words)

	RW ONLINE:"THE EXONERATED": THE THEATER OF LIFE AND DEATH
		It is October 30, New York City, the opening night of "The Exonerated," a play created from actual interviews with men and women who had been condemned to death, sent to prison, and later, in some cases decades later, found innocent and finally released.
		The Exonerated will be performed at the United Nations in December, and a longer run is planned for the spring.
		The Exonerated is the kind of play that carves open more space for a powerful culture of resistance so much needed by the people in these days of harsh and mean-spirited politics.
	rwor.org /a/v22/1070-79/1078/exoner.htm (1828 words)

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