Ethics and the Theater- Exonerated March 31, 2013

The shared charity is The Innocence Project, whose representative Liz Webster, will interview Raymond Santana in a follow-up afternoon program starting at 1:45 pm in Ceremonial Hall. Mr. Santana is one of the Central Park Five whose story is told in a 2012 documentary film by that name directed by Sarah Burns.

Kerry Max Cook made a mistake: He stole the town sheriff's car. After that, he was the prime suspect whenever any crime occurred, from a lost cat to, finally, a murder, for which he spent 22 years on death row before DNA evidence cleared him. Kerry is one of six men and women wrongly convicted and sentenced to death, and ultimately exonerated, who are the subjects of The Exonerated, a documentary play by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen. Blank and Jensen used interview and trial transcripts to allow these people to tell their stories in their own voices. And their voices are extremely powerful: In 2002, Blank and Jensen presented The Exonerated for Governor George Ryan of Illinois. On January 11, 2003, just two days before leaving office, Governor Ryan commuted the sentences of everyone on or waiting to be sent to Illinois's death row.

Cast: Carole Chamlin, Jerry Chamlin, Curt Collier, Dan Hanson, Andra Miller, Shaun Roberts, Gregory Taylor, Monica Weiss.

Director: Gregory Taylor

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