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title: 'NEW BOOKS: "The Dead Alive" Explores Wrongful Convictions'
description: '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…'
canonical: 'https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-books-the-dead-alive-explores-wrongful-convictions'
section: news
date: '2005-12-29T16:49:58-05:00'
updated: '2025-03-14T14:24:09-04:00'
source: 'Death Penalty Information Center'
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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).