The Exonerated

Synopsis

Imagine everything you did between the years of 1994 - 2010. Now remove all of it. 16 years were taken away from Sunny Jacobs, convicted and sentenced to death for a crime she did not commit. Culled from interviews, letters, transcripts, case files, and the public record, The Exonerated tells the true stories of six people sent to Death Row for crimes they did not commit, the interweaving stories paint a picture of an American criminal justice system gone horribly wrong and of six brave souls who persevered to survive it.

Our Review:

26 February 2006

In a week when the Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger once again denied clemency for a Death Row prisoner, Michael Morales, despite new evidence that order for his execution was based on the perjured evidence of a jailhouse informant who had said that he had boasted of the crime with him and admitted to having planned it, yet had done so in a language – Spanish – that Morales doesn’t actually speak, the extreme and uncomfortable limits of the very final and irrevocable kind of justice that is being meted in a supposedly civilised country like America are once again revealed. (Morales was subsequently spared for now, just two hours before his scheduled execution last Tuesday, by a separate debate over the procedures being used for lethal injections and the amount of unknown suffering that may be caused in the process).

Hearing in The Exonerated – Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen’s play constructed out of the stories of six innocent people who spent t...

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195.93.21.34) - 11 April 2006:

a truly amazing, touching and heart breaking play, the sheer fact that all of these stories are true is enough to get you thinking about your own life. i watched the show on the 8th of april, and was on the edge of my seat from start to finish. all the actors from geraldine james to william jay marshall had you hanging on every word they said. i think it was likes of abdul salis,cecelia noble, geff francis and nigel harman who really shone in the play they all brought a bit of laughter to a very dark and thought provking situation. a fantastic night out and a fantastic play that everyone should watch....

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