The Exonerated by Jessica Blank
The Exonerated- Raven Theatre- Culled from interviews, letters, transcripts, case files, and public record, The Exonerated tells the stories of six wrongfully convicted survivors of death row in their own words. It paints a harrowing picture of American justice gone terribly wrong, as well as a tribute to the perseverance and bravery of the people it portrays. The Exonerated attempts to answer this question through the. Especially when one considers that these characters are real people and the script is pulled from.
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.
Among them are Sunny Jacobs, a mother of two whose unwavering belief during sixteen years in jail that she would be released (despite the execution of her husband, who was also innocent, for the same crime) allowed her to dedicate herself to being a living memorial when she was freed. There is Kerry Max Cook, a Texan who was convicted of murdering a young woman even though she was found with another mans hair grasped in her fist--a man whom Texas killed a thousand times, and just keeps on doing it in his nightmares. And there is Delbert Tibbs, a black Chicago poet who speaks of his years on death row with anger and bitterness, yet also, as he says, still sings. All their stories have been compiled and edited by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen into The Exonerated, a play that is both a riveting work of theater and an exploration of the dark side of the American criminal justice system.
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Theatre Journal By Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen. Incorporating six of those interviews with court testimony, police interrogation, and personal correspondence, Blank and Jensen have crafted a powerful indictment against the criminal justice system and capital punishment. The narrative spans the arrest, imprisonment and eventual exoneration and release of five men and one woman—three of whom are African American and three Caucasian. The cases include coercion of suspects to make misleading statements, representation by attorneys who were not disinterested parties, and inconclusive fingerprint evidence. Prison life is presented as treacherous: when one prisoner was assaulted by his fellow inmates, they carved the words 'good pussy' on his buttocks.
What effect does it have on a person--a soul, a life--to have freedom and self-respect stripped away and then, ostensibly, returned years later after decades of incarceration? The Exonerated attempts to answer this question through the words of six innocent men and women who, after years in jail, emerged from death row to try to reclaim what was left of their lives. Among them are Sunny Jacobs, a mother of two whose unwavering belief during sixteen years in jail that she would be released despite the execution of her husband, who was also innocent, for the same crime allowed her to dedicate herself to being a 'living memorial' when she was freed. There is Kerry Max Cook, a Texan who was convicted of murdering a young woman even though she was found with another man's hair grasped in her fist--a man whom 'Texas killed a thousand times, and just keeps on doing it' in his nightmares. And there is Delbert Tibbs, a black Chicago poet who speaks of his years on death row with anger and bitterness, yet also, as he says, 'still sings.
It was adapted into a film by the same name. Their accounts of the freed convicts emphasize their lives after being sentenced to death, including much of the legal proceedings that gained their exoneration. During the summer of , Jensen and Blank traveled to interview 40 former death row inmates who had been freed by the state after having served as much as 22 years in prison. A group of exonerated individuals also attended. Ryan was reviewing how to handle death row inmates in light of the publicity surrounding those who had been convicted during Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge 's tenure, which ended when he was fired in Ryan declared a moratorium on the use of the death sentence in the state in In early January , shortly before he left office, he pardoned four men whom he believed to be innocent.
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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. Their time in prison ranged from 2 years to 22 years. Actors sit on stools arrayed at the lip of the stage, with scripts on music stands in front of them. There are no sets and costumes to speak of, and only lighting is used to punctuate the transitions between speakers. The evening's ultimate message is blunt, too: The death penalty, as it is administered by a flawed American justice system, is a moral monstrosity. It is by no means a dry jeremiad. Drawn from a series of interviews with men and women who spent time on death row before being cleared of the crimes for which they were sentenced, it is necessarily disturbing and even grueling.
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