Rob Warden, Executive Director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law, has written a book about one of the first accounts of a death penalty exoneration in the U.S. Wilkie Collins, a British author, had written a novel entitled “The Dead Alive” about the convictions and death sentences of Jesse and Stephen Boorn for a murder committed in 1819. They were later exonerated. Warden’s book is entitled “Wilkie Collins’s The Dead Alive: The Novel, the Case, and Wrongful Convictions” and he provides examples of other mistakes in capital cases. Scott Turow wrote the Foreward for this new book.
(Northwestern University Press, December 2005; all proceeds go to the Center on Wrongful Convictions).
