"The Exonerated Comes" To North Carolina
Theatre-on-a-Stick opens its production of "The Exonerated," by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, this weekend."The Exonerated" tells the true story of six people wrongly convicted of murder who were freed after spending from two to 22 years on death row. The play won the 2003 Drama Desk Award and was nominated for three NAACP awards.
Three discussions and talk-backs pertinent to death penalty issues will be held. After the performance Sunday at the Brown-Penn Center, Darryl Hunt and Jennifer Cannino will lead the discussion. Hunt was released after serving 18 years of a life sentence for a 1984 rape and murder he didn't commit.
Cannino was a rape victim who mistakenly identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker.Cotton served 10 years for the crime before a DNA test exonerated him.
Mark Kleinschmidt, staff attorney, Center for Death Penalty Litigation, will lead a discussion after the performance at the Belk Centrum Sept. 30. On Oct. 2, a panel of religious and community leaders will be led by the Rev. Robert MacDicken of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Catawba Valley.
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