Individualized Actor Packets and General Resources:
The Death Penalty Information Center keeps an updated fact sheet on executions and exonerations in the US. To access this as a PDF file, click here.
Kerry Max Cook, Sandra Cook, Kerry’s prosecutor:
•Cook, Kerry Max. Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself after Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit. New York: William Morrow, c2007.
•Diane Rehm Show: Tuesday February 27, 2007, 11 am; Guest host: Susan Page; NPR and WAMU: http://wamu.org/programs/dr/07/02/27.php
•Donald, Mark. “Innocence Lost.” Dallas Observer.
•July 15, 1999: http://www.dallasobserver.com/1999-07-15/news/innocence-lost/
•July 22, 1999: http://www.dallasobserver.com/1999-07-22/news/innocence-lost/
•Information on Texas Death Row: http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/deathrow.htm
Gary Gauger, Sue Gauger:
•Gauger, Gary and Von Bergen, Julie. In Spite of the System: A Personal Story of Wrongful Conviction and Exoneration. Lake Geneva, WI : Fourcatfarm Press, 2008.
•Gauger, Gary. “I Stepped into a Dream: A Useful Fiction.” Vollen, Lola and Eggers, Dave. Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated. San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2005.
•CHICAGO MATTERS: Seeking Justice, Reports & Personal Essays. Personal Essay by Gary Gauger, a Man Freed from Death Row, originally broadcast Thursday, May 11, 2000: http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/programs/specials/chicagomatters/cm00_justice/cm00rptsra.asp
•Center on Wrongful Convicions fact sheet:
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/ilgaugerSummary.html
Sunny Jacobs, Jessie Tafero, Walter Rhodes:
•Sunny Jacobs, Stolen Time: The Inspiring Story of an Innocent Woman Condemned to Death. London: Doubleday, 2007.
•Information on Florida Death Row: http://www.dc.state.fl.us/oth/deathrow/
•Additional online resources:
•http://www.journeyofhope.org/pages/sonia_jacobs.htm
•http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2006/feb/20/theatre.usa
•Center on Wrongful Convicions fact sheet:
•http://www.law.northwestern.edu/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/flJacobsSummary.html
Delbert Tibbs:
•Delbert's new book of poetry (not in libraries yet- available online at delberttibbs.com): Selected Poems and Other Word/Works.
•Tibbs, Delbert L., 1939- Poems, Prayers & Logics. Chicago, IL : ENAAQ Publications, 1984.
•Tibbs, Delbert L., And I Only am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee: Job 3:17. Chicago, IL : Rouselle Communications, 1992.
•Tibbs, Delbert L., Song Singing Songs: A Collection of Poems. Chicago: [D. Tibbs]; 1999.
•Interview with Delbert Tibbs in Terkel, Studs. Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith. New York: New Press, 2001.
•Information on Florida Death Row: http://www.dc.state.fl.us/oth/deathrow/
•Online resources:
•http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/node/1916
•Center on Wrongful Convictions fact sheets:
https://www.law.northwestern.edu/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/flTibbsBibliography.html
https://www.law.northwestern.edu/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/flTibbsChronology.html
https://www.law.northwestern.edu/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/flTibbsCaseData.html
David Keaton:
•Freedberg, Sydney. “The Stigma is Always There.” St. Petersburg Times. 4 July, 1999. Available at: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/node/1917
•Profile in Cohen, Stanley. The Wrong Men: America's Epidemic of Wrongful Death Row Convictions. Carroll and Graf, 2003.
•Deadline [videorecording]. Big Mouth Productions; a film by Katy Chevigny and Kirsten Johnson. Published: [United States]: Home Vision Entertainment, [2004]. Contains interviews with both David Keaton and Gary Gauger. http://deadlinethemovie.com/about_the_film/about_deadline.php
•Information on Florida Death Row: http://www.dc.state.fl.us/oth/deathrow/
Robert Earl Hayes, Georgia Hayes:
•Profile in Cohen, Stanley. The Wrong Men: America's Epidemic of Wrongful Death Row Convictions. Carroll and Graf, 2003.
•Robert Hayes, 1995 appeal after which charges were dropped: click RobertHayesAppeal.pdf
•Information on Florida Death Row: http://www.dc.state.fl.us/oth/deathrow/
•Center on Wrongful Convicions fact sheet:
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/flHayesSummary.html
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/node/1916
Entire cast:
•Vollen, Lola and Eggers, Dave. “Appendix A: Criminal confessions and interrogations.” Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated. San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2005.
•Selections from Allen, Howard W., Race, Class, and the Death Penalty: Capital Punishment in American History. Howard W. Allen and Jerome M. Clubb ; with the assistance of Vincent A. Lacey. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2008.
General Resources:
Executions of the Innocent:
•Center on Wrongful Convictions information on 39 individuals who were executed in the face of probable innocence: http://www.law.northwestern.edu/wrongfulconvictions/issues/deathpenalty/executinginnocent/
•David Grann’s September 7 New Yorker article on the wrongful execution of Cameron Todd
Willingham: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_grann
•Dahlia Lithwick’s September 14 Newsweek article on Cameron Todd Willingham:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/214833/output/comments/
Book resources:
•Allen, Howard W., Race, Class, and the Death Penalty: Capital Punishment in American History. Howard W. Allen and Jerome M. Clubb; with the assistance of Vincent A. Lacey. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2008.
•Blackmon, Douglas A. Slavery by Another Name : The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II / Douglas A. Blackmon. New York : Anchor Books, 2009.
•Baumgartner, Frank R., De Boef, Suzanne, and Boydstun, Amber. The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
•Cohen, Stanley. The Wrong Men: America's Epidemic of Wrongful Death Row Convictions. Carroll and Graf, 2003.
•Davis, Angela J. Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
•Dwyer, Jim, Neufeld, Peter, and Scheck, Barry. Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right. 2d ed., New American Library, 2001.
•Gould, Jon B. The Innocence Commission: Preventing Wrongful Convictions and Restoring the Criminal Justice System. New York: NYU Press, 2007.
•Vollen, Lola and Eggers, Dave. Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated. San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2005.