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We can build safeguards into the system to help prevent wrongful conviction, and it is morally imperative that we do so- -but we can never build safeguards strong enough to completely remove the risk of human error.

Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen are not your average struggling actors, first- time playwrights, married couple, or just about anything else.

Columbia University, which sparked their interest and gave them a vision for the play they wanted to create.

The plays political reach was wide as well: its been performed at the United Nations and in front of the likes of Janet Reno, Supreme Court Justice David Souter, Senator Patrick Leahy, and members of the Justice Department.

One of the most gripping moments in the book details a performance given in Chicago as then- Governor Ryan was deciding whether to exonerate people being held on death row in Illinois.

The Exonerated also garnered Blank and Jensen numerous awards, including the 2.

Living Justice is a moving story, outlining their struggles, triumphs and the day- to- day tasks involved in the creation of a production that became much larger than either had envisioned.

And while the topic has far- reaching implications, Blanks and Jensens is also an eminently New York story, chronicling their East Village digs, local theater community, reactions to 91.

New Yorkers meeting with people from vastly different backgrounds and forging profound connections that wind up cutting across race, class, and geography, while never forgetting the impact of these differences.

Here, Blank and Jensen describe their challenges and triumphs, the roles of fate and religion in their journey, and their definition of activism, while highlighting their findings about the problems with current death penalty procedures, especially the role of wrongful convictions.

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What prompted you to chronicle the rest of your journey in Living Justice Our job as playwrights was to tell the stories of the exonerated people as purely and simply as we could; we felt strongly that their journeys are so compelling that inserting our own journey into the narrative of the play would have weakened its power as a piece of theater.

We tried hard to avoid describing our own political ideas in the play, for example, or talking about our own experiences learning about the criminal justice system, because we felt that it was so important that the exonerated peoples powerful stories speak for themselves.

The people we met changed our lives profoundly and their stories blew our minds.

These talented activists and artists are the force behind the anti-death penalty play The Exonerated, and have recently authored a behind-the-scenes peek into.

As a play, awarded the Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Awards, it was acclaimed in major cities across America.

How does the issue of the wrongly convicted fit into the larger issue of the death penalty.

For their new documentary play, The Exonerated, writers Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen interviewed sixty people who had.

The death penalty puts the issue in stark relief, however, because capital punishment is irreversible.

In a non- capital case, while authorities can never give an innocent person back the years that were stolen from him, at least the sentence can be reversed at any point.

Many of these causes and potential solutions have been identified, and with the right legislation, the risk of wrongful conviction could be significantly lessened.

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