![]() ![]() His grandfather was murdered in a Philadelphia housing project when Stevenson was a teenager. His great-grandparents had been slaves in Virginia. But “Just Mercy,” a memoir, aggregates and personalizes the struggle against injustice in the story of one activist lawyer.īryan Stevenson grew up poor in Delaware. This news reaches citizens in articles and television spots about mistreated individuals. Even the states that still kill people appear to have forgotten how lately executions have been botched to horrific effect. Studies cast doubt on the accuracy of eyewitness testimony. Sentencing guidelines born of the war on drugs look increasingly draconian. The predominance of racial minorities in jails and prisons suggests systemic bias. ![]() DNA analysis exposes false convictions, it seems, on a weekly basis. Unfairness in the Justice system is a major theme of our age. ![]()
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