That in itself marks an astonishing reordering of opinion since the 1980s when nearly 8 people in 10 supported the death penalty2 and a gubernatorial candidate in Alabama ran for office vowing to “fry them until their eyeballs pop out.”3 Riddled with race and class biases, the U.S. It is no longer reasonably debatable that our inefficient, expensive, broken, racist, criminal justice bureaucracy wrongfully condemns and executes the wholly innocent. –Bryan Stevenson, in Walter McMillan’s case.1 We have serious problems and important work that must be done …” Your Honor … It was far too easy to convict this wrongly accused man for murder and send him to death row for something he didn’t do and much too hard to win his freedom after proving his innocence.
Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, New York, Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House, 2014, 336pp.
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