On December 16, 2002, George Ryan, then governor of Illinois, attended a production of Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's "The Exonerated" in Chicago. The play, an unsettling drama composed of material culled from interviews, transcripts, case files, letters and the public record, tells the stories of six [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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