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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

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Julie Green’s exhibit, “The Last Supper: 600 Plates Illustrating the Final Meals of U.S. Death Row Inmates,” opens Saturday at the Block Museum of Art. She began her project after reading a newspaper article about a death row inmate’s final meal.

Block Museum exhibit raises questions about the morality of capital punishment

May 7, 2015

A&E Julie Green has painted nearly 50 plates of death row inmates’ final meals for the past 15 years straight, and she has no plans to stop — until capital punishment is abolished in the United...

Center on Wrongful Convictions co-director Jane Raley remembered for passion for justice

January 6, 2015

Over the course of her 14 years as co-director of Northwestern School of Law’s Center on Wrongful Convictions, Jane Raley was not only known for her talent as an attorney and professor, but for her...

Northwestern’s Center on Wrongful Convictions helps exonerate man of 1996 murder charge

September 6, 2014

Almost 18 years after being wrongly convicted of murder, a Michigan man will be set free Monday thanks to DNA evidence and the persistence of wrongful conviction centers at Northwestern and the University...

Center on Wrongful Convictions asks Quinn to pardon former death row inmate

October 16, 2013

The Center on Wrongful Convictions on Wednesday asked Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn to pardon a former death row inmate whose conviction was overturned in 2004. Attorneys from the center, which operates...

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (left) speaks to Rob Warden (far right) at the August signing of a bill aimed at preventing wrongful convictions. Warden will resign his post as the executive director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions next summer after 15 years at the helm.

Rob Warden to leave Center on Wrongful Convictions next summer

September 19, 2013

Rob Warden will retire as director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions in August 2014, Northwestern School of Law Dean Daniel Rodriguez announced earlier this month. Warden co-founded the clinic,...

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