89:, a non-partisan, not-for-profit, journalism organization that conducts in-depth research exposing institutional failures that obstruct justice and equality. As an investigative journalist in the 1970s, he began focusing on death penalty cases, which led to a career exposing and publicizing the injustices and misconduct in the legal system. Warden's work was instrumental in the blanket commutation of death row cases in Illinois in 2003 and in the abolition of the Illinois death penalty in 2011.
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Warden has won more than 50 awards, including the Medill School of
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In a law review article, Warden described how he had evolved from a supporter of capital punishment into a crusader for abolition—referring to a thesis advanced by
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall that the average citizen, if fully informed of the realities of capital punishment, would “find
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Rob Warden and David
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an anthology of 29 articles on false confessions published by
Northwestern University Press in 2009. In 2018, the Journal of Law & Social Policy published a comprehensive article by Warden and co-author Daniel Lennard on the American experience with capital punishment.
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uncovered in that case when he received an unsolicited letter from one of the defendants on death row. It took another 15 years until the wrongfully convicted inmates were to be released and exonerated, after receiving help from students at the
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who had been falsely convicted of a rape that in fact had not occurred. The
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Warden grew up in Carthage, Missouri. He began his journalism career in Missouri in 1960 at the
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Randal, Jonathan (October 30, 1975). "A Suddenly Neutral Hotel".
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