"Finding Freedom in Forgiveness" by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton

     This essay, written by a pair of people, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton, who you would never have believed could come together for this purpose. Ronald Cotton was identified by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino in a lineup as the man who had raped her. After spending 11 years in prison for rape, DNA cleared Ronald Cotton of the crime. This essay correctly titled “Finding Freedom in Forgiveness” talks about the initial hatred the two felt for each other, but eventually how this hatred gave way to forgiveness, and that forgiveness set the two free and allowed them to heal. Not only were they able to forgive each other, but the two, "victims of the same injustice by the same man" where able to forgive him also.