Just Mercy By Bryan Stevenson

“Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson, and he is also the main character of the book. Stevenson narrated the stories about law, justice, kindness, compassion, and love with his personal experience. Stevenson was born in a poor, racially segregated rural. He did not affected by the living environment, and he was positive and became a student at Harvard Law School. Stevenson was holding a determination to struggle for racial inequality and to be equitable and fair with one another. At the beginning of studying law, he was confused and has nothing to do with the knowledge he learned from the classes, and that was totally different with his expected. However, when he met the first prisoner, Henry, through an internship opportunity of SPDC, Stevenson was impressed by Henry 's words and deeds, and also Henry reshaped the his understand about humanity, forgiveness and hope. The meeting definitely changed his future as a lawyer. Stevenson realized that the originally studied at Law school was isolated from his life, but now he had new significance of it. If he wanted to help and change the inequality he saw, developing necessary skills became an important, meaningful tools. After graduating from law school, Stevenson committed to legal aid, and he served and represent people who poor, condemned, on the death row. During the internship at SPDC, Stevenson got two cases, Lurid Ruffin and a black teenager, who were both died at he hands of police. Also, he had a terrifying encounter which the Atlanta police surrounded him while sitting in front of his apartment. While he was ultimately released without further incident, but he was embarrassed, frightened, and angry that the police violated numerous laws while searching his car. Rather than waging a war with the bureaucracy of the Atlanta police force, and he decided to work directly for those poor and young black people, by speaking to them in youth groups, churches, and community organizations. In 1989, Stevenson and Eva Ansley opened a new nonprofit law center which proved free, quality legal services. He saw the cruel death penalty with the electric chair of a prisoner, and he could not persuade himself that was a humanistic penalty. Besides, Stevenson got a phone call from a prisoner on the death row, Herbert Richardson, and he asked Stevenson for help because his execute date had decided, and he didn’t has volunteer lawyer. Stevenson had faxed certiorari to the Supreme Court to stay …show more content…
Even though he had had a warning phone call from a local Judge Robert E. Lee Key about Walter, and he still continues on it. Stevenson found out new evidences of innocence, even including the a significant evidence to defend Ralph Walter: Walter’s family was staying with him when Ronda Morrison was murdered. However, during the trial, nothing goes in Walter’s favor, and he was found guilty of murdering Ronda Morrison and sentenced to death. After Stevenson met Walter’s extended family, he got a new evidence from Darnell Houston, which proved Walter was innocent. Stevenson then met with the new Monroe County district attorney, Tom Chapman, who might be fairer and more sympathetic to people’s wrong; and Stevenson wanted to make a motion to reconsider the denial of a new trial for Walter. Whereas, the outcome was unsatisfactory. The court has denied the request despite Houston’s