Incarceration In Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy

In Just Mercy By Bryan Stevenson, a memoir, we recount his tale of an African American man named Henry who Stevenson tells will not be executed in the next year. Following their talk, Stevenson thinks back to his childhood where he lived in a rural, racially segregated town in Delaware. His grandmother who was raised as the daughter of slaves had told him, “You can’t understand most of the important things from a distance. You have to get close”. In his book, Stevenson seeks to “get closer” to the issue of incarceration in the US. Stevenson talks about a man named Walter McMillian who was sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. McMillan's trial lasted only a single day and a half, with no evidence held against him. Although, three

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