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Bryan Stevenson is has a nonprofit where him and others try to represent prisoners on death row. He talks about multiple cases where the court chooses to execute people despite there being many reasons for them not to do it. It seems as if the justice system at that time cared about executing people only and not about whether or not they actually deserved it. One man was intellectually disabled and still executed.
— Apr 26, 2022 11:19AM
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The Supreme Court finally bans putting juveniles in life sentences or deathrow, and this is a major win. Stevenson is overloaded with many rebuttal cases bc of this but many people are being freed. Walter eventually dies. It is sad that he ended up with trauma induced dementia and spent his last few years in confusing, but Stevenson talks about how monumental his case was. Walter felt like a brother to him.
— May 24, 2022 11:37AM
Lillian Lomeli
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Stevenson tries to represent a man on death row who is intellectually disabled and is being wrongly accused of murder. His execution is 30 days from them and they try hard to make a case. Stevenson continuously tries to make appeals to the courts and it goes all the way to supreme court. Yet no court considers his clients difficulties at all. He is executed. Stevenson has a hard time facing it and himself.
— May 19, 2022 11:30AM
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Stevenson is helping out an inmate called Joe Sullivan, who was sentenced to life in prison at just 13 years old. He is now around 30 and extremely mentally ill from the trauma of being imprisoned and spending his life there. Stevenson is trying to advocate for him and all other juveniles who were sentenced to life at a young age. We also learn that Walter has gotten advanced dementia which was trauma induced.
— May 17, 2022 11:24AM
Lillian Lomeli
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Stevenson talks about how much mother in poverty struggle in the justice system. It is really easy to accuse them of having "unsafe environments" for children when it's all due to poverty. Many struggle with addiction too because of their circumstances, yet rather than receive proper help they're jailed for having drugs in their system. People view stillbirths as infanticide & mothers are given the life sentence.
— May 12, 2022 11:27AM
