Exonerated: The Play's Characters

• Kerry Max Cook: was sentenced to death for the murder of Linda Jo Edwards, a 21-year-old secretary. The murder occurred on June 10, 1977 in Tyler, Texas. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Max_Cook)
• Gary Guager: In January of 1994, Gary Gauger of McHenry County, Illinois was wrongfully sentenced to death for the murder of his parents. (http://www.thejusticeproject.org/profiles/gary-gauger/)
• Robert Earl 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. (http://www.law.northwestern.edu/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/flHayesSummary.html)
• Sonia "Sunny" 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. (http://www.law.northwestern.edu/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/flJacobsSummary.html)
• David Keaton: Keaton was sentenced to death for murdering an off duty deputy sheriff during a robbery.(http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=2338)
• Delbert Tibbs: Delbert Tibbs was arrested in 1974 and charged with the murder of a white man and the rape of his girlfriend. (http://itrs.scu.edu/bfl/delbert.html)