NEW BOOKS: ​“The Dead Alive” Explores Wrongful Convictions

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).