Audience Resources on Innocence and the Death Penalty

 


The Innocence Project and its sister agencies (including the Connecticut Innocence Project), the Center on Wrongful Convictions, and the Life After Exoneration Program have helped to free and/or support over two hundred wrongfully convicted individuals.  However, there are many innocent people in U.S. prisons today.  To learn more, contact:


The Innocence Project:  http://www.innocenceproject.org/

The Innocence Network: http://www.innocencenetwork.org/

Connecticut Innocence Project: http://www.ocpd.state.ct.us/Content/Innocence%20Project/Innocence%20Project.htm 

Center on Wrongful Convictions:  http://www.law.northwestern.edu/wrongfulconvictions/

Death Penalty Information Center: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/

Life After Exoneration Program: http://www.exonerated.org/content/index.php


Books about the Legal System, the Death Penalty and Wrongful Convictions:


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.

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.


Books about the Exonerated in this Production:


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, 2007.

Gauger, Gary and Julie Von Bergen. In Spite of the System: A Personal Story of Wrongful Conviction and Exoneration. Lake Geneva, WI: Fourcatfarm Press, 2008. 

Jacobs, Sunny. Stolen Time: The Inspiring Story of an Innocent Woman Condemned to Death. London: Doubleday, 2007.

Jensen, Erik and Jessica Blank. Living Justice: Love, Freedom, and the Making of The Exonerated. Atria Press, 2005.

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.

Tibbs, Delbert.  Selected Poems and Other Word/Works, available at www.delberttibbs.com


Films and Documentaries:


After Innocence. Directed by Jessica Sanders. New York: New Yorker Video, 2007.

Deadline. A film by Katy Chevigny and Kirsten Johnson. Big Mouth Productions. United States: Home Vision Entertainment, 2004.

The Exonerated. Written by Erik Jensen and Jessica Blank.  Directed by Bob Balaban. Court TV: 2005.

In the Blink of an Eye.  Directed by Micki Dickoff. United States: Platinum Disc, 2004.