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Sunny Jacobs, innocent woman on death row |
24 Feb 2006 |
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In 1976 Sunny Jacobs, a mother of two young children, was convicted of murdering two policemen in Florida. She was sentenced to the death penalty and became the first woman to join death row following America 's reintroduction of capital punishment.
Eventually a court overturned her conviction but by then she had spent 16 years in prison. For the first five years she had been kept in solitary confinement. Tonight a new production called The Exonerated opens at the Riverside Studios in London which tells her story and that of five other death row survivors, people who were sentenced to execution but later freed when it became clear that they had been wrongly convicted.
Martha Kearney asks Sunny how she coped on death row, how she felt about being separated from her children and how she has rebuilt her life following her release.
The Exonerated is at Riverside Studios, London, 21 February - 11 June.Riverside Studios, The ExoneratedDisclaimer
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