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4.72 AVERAGE
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This book is my favorite book, ever. I have not been so captivated by a read in a very long time. The voice of the author is phenomenal and the true stories he tells are incredibly engaging. He is an inspiration to me and I admire the work Bryan Stevenson does greatly.
This book is truly inspiring and thought provoking. Stevenson and the team he works with are an absolute gift to society. Their commitment to make the world a better place and support those who are condemned, and arguably the most hopeless and forgotten members of our human race will move you in ways you did not think possible. It was truly an honor to learn this man's story. He is without a doubt a hero of our day.
This book is going to linger with me for a while. Reading about the intimate details of death row experiences was harrowing. This is a must read for anyone interested in compassion, justice, or human decency.
Bryan Stevenson is the founder of the Innocence Project. It’s a nonprofit; most of his clients are people on death row or have been convicted and have been sentenced unjustly. We see his cases in southern states; we get to see multiple cases in which people are getting sentenced to death row for crimes that aren’t even given a fair trial. We have people who have not committed homicide, even children, being sent in for life and mentally ill people being sent to the chair. Bryan did an excellent job having so many examples and such important commentary. We see these judges purposely do things like move the case into another county that’s predominantly white just to have all white jurors, and even if the jurors come back with not guilty or a different sentencing, the judge will go ahead and overrule and prosecute the way they see fit with their blatant biases even If you’re for or against or neutral on the death penalty, this is such an important read to really understand what you are deciding on. It’s a conversation that should be had personally. I was for the death penalty on a very surface level, but still I didn’t really look much into it. I love that this book educated me because the thought of giving the government so much power to kill people is so insane. LIKE HELLO especially looking at the fact that our government is so flawed and corrupt, not to mention we still very much live at a time where racism is alive and well, which we absolutely see in these cases when Black men, women, and children are literally being murdered by our government. This book should very much infuriate you; it is modern lynching right in front of us that’s our "modern day" death penalty.
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emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced