{"product_id":"9781897289365","title":"Innocence Lost: A Play about Steven Truscott","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn June of 1959, 12-year old Lynne Harper was found raped and strangled in a farm woodlot near Clinton, Ontario. A few months later her classmate, 14-year old Steven Truscott, was convicted of the murder. He was sentenced to death by hanging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTruscott always maintained his innocence. As the youngest person ever sentenced to death in Canada, his case was a major impetus for the abolishment of capital punishment in this country, and his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1960. In 2007, after a review of more than 250 pieces of new evidence, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that TruscottÕs conviction had been a miscarriage of justice, and he was acquitted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this incisive and emotionally-taut dramatization of the case, Beverley Cooper recreates the world of Steven Truscott and his friends. Sarah, a young farm girl, is our guide to life bounded by small town hangouts, organized sports, the local air force base, school. And then suddenly that world twists into a nightmare of grief, fear, police questioning, rumour and innuendo. With finely-calibrated tension, Cooper leads the audience through the case afresh and sheds light on the human cost of what is now considered to be CanadaÕs most notorious wrongful conviction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039827345648,"sku":"9781897289365","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781897289365_p0.jpg?v=1763611117","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781897289365","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}