The Exonerated: A Play

by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571211836
• ISBN13: 9780571211838
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.2" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

WHY THE ENTIRE CIVILIZED WORLD AND EVEN THE POPE CONDEMN CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

whereas Bush killed more in Texas, with Al GOnzo's ineffectual five minutes "clemency" rubber stamp reviews, than any other governor in history since Vlad the Impaler. This important play for today tells us in the condemned innocents' own words why we must cease being a rogue nation and rejoin the community of civilized nations by outlawing capital punishment. Look at the short list of nations which still practice the barbarism which is the death penalty, and decide which list you stand with. Read the words of these innocents driven mad by the fatal, inexorable and casual uncaring injustice of our system. What purpose has the death penalty? It is no deterrrent. We have known that since James Joyce outlined the objections in his Episode Twelve of Ulysses. The Catholic Church continually condemns its immorality and injustice as a pro-life issue. Yet we kill on. Why?

The Exonerated (A Play)

I first SAW this play at the Edinburgh Festival. It is immensely powerful. It gives the story, in their own words,of a number of people who have been unjustly or erroneously accused of crimes and sentenced to death in the USA, and have spent time, sometimes decades, on Death Row. These people were eventually found innocent, but the play also has much to say about the justice system, prison conditions, and human courage and cowardice.The humour, resilience and lack of bitterness is stunning. My copy is now being passed round on Death Row in Ohio.

This play makes you realize what goes on!

This play is very well written. The story just makes you know what people's lives are like after they are convicted of a crime that they never commited. If you want something real and new than this play is for you! This play is very creative and well thought out for the viewer,reader, and actor to enjoy.

reality on a personal note

Truth is a very scary thing but it's something we should all know. I went into it knowing the of the horror that is present today and it was still a very touching story. (Probably due to the personal feel it swelled with) For those who aren't aware of the injustice that is so prominent, this would be groundbreaking. It's an amazing play and personally, I think it's better than "I AM MY OWN WIFE".

Incredible Power

Powerful, powerful, powerful. This work is chilling and captivating. There is not a wasted syllable in it. The fact that all of the events in the play are real and the words to be spoken by the actors were in many cases actually spoken or written by the people involved makes this disturbing to say the least. If the script is this moving, I can hardly wait to see it performed.