The Exonerated

"I'm no different from you. I wasnt' a street thug,
I wasn't trash, I came from a good family.
If it happened to me, man, it can happen to anyone."

THE EXONERATED tells the gripping true story of six death row inmates who, in the face of new evidence, are exonerated before their execution. This screen adaptation of the long-running critically acclaimed off-Broadway play is told through the actual words of the exonorees taken from interviews, official court notes and testimony.

Gary Gauger, imprisoned 1993 to 1996
Gauger was sentenced to death based mostly on statements he allegedly made during an interrogation that authorities claimed amounted to a confession.

David Keaton, imprisoned 1970 to 1979
Keaton was arrested for his alleged involvement in the shooting and killing of a deputy sheriff.

Delbert Tibbs, imprisoned 1974 to 1977
Tibbs was convicted in 1974 of the murder of a 27-year-old man near Fort Meyers, Florida, and the rape of the man’s 17-year-old female companion. Tibbs was sentence to death for the murder and life for the rape.

Kerry Max Cook, imprisoned 1977 to 1997
Cook was twice convicted and twice sentenced to death for the 1977 murder and mutilation of a 21-year-old secretary in Tyler, Texas.

Sonia "Sunny" Jacobs, imprisioned 1976 to 1992
Jacobs and Jesse Joseph Tafero, the father of the younger of her two children, were tried separately, convicted, and sentenced to death by the same judge for the 1976 murders of two law enforcement officers at a rest stop off of Interstate 95 in Broward County, Florida. Jacobs was exonerated while co-defendant, convicted on similar evidence, went to the electric chair.

Robert Earl Hayes, imprisoned 1990 to 1997
Hayes was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a 32-year-old woman who worked with him at a horse racetrack in Broward County, Florida. The conviction rested in substantial part on the testimony of a witness who claimed to have seen Hayes with the victim and heard her reject his advances shortly before the murder.

The intimate description of each wrongful conviction presents a strong statement on the limitations of the American criminal justice system and the death penalty in particular.

Directed by Bob Balaban, the production starts Susan Sarandon, Danny Glover, Delroy Lindo, Aidan Quinn, Brian Dennehy and David Brown, Jr. portraying the exonorees. For more information about the film and the exonerated, please visit http://www.courttv.com/movie/exonerated/index.html.

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