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Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs, the American woman who spent 16 years in prison, five of them on death row, for a crime she didn’t commit, has been named as one of the victims of a fatal house fire in Casla, Co Galway, on Tuesday, June 3.

In its very first workshop, the law, journalism and human rights students of the newly-launched NUIG Innocence Clinic this week observed the 5th Annual International Wrongful Conviction Day with a minute of silence to remember the hundreds of thousands of innocent people still awaiting justice worldwide.

THE EXONERATED, hailed as “an artful and moving evening of documentary theatre” by Variety, in its examination of the lives and experiences of six people exonerated from death row, has its first staging in Galway this month.