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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
challenging
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
I cannot express enough how important of a read this book is.
With today’s society leaning more and more towards strict conservatism, and subsequently erasing years and years of hard work from civil rights movements, it’s ever so dire to read about the death penalty and the criminal justice system in itself.
Now that conservatives are on the rise, so is the question and demand to bring back / for the death penalty. This book goes over those affected by said penalty. Innocent people, disabled people, people with traumatic backgrounds, people born in poverty etc. It especially highlights the horrible racial bias in the criminal justice system.
Countless of people of colour have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to death or to die in prison. Tragically, thousands of black or brown juveniles have befallen the same fate.
This book makes you think on how inhumane it is to sentence someone to die either by death penalty or life imprisonment without parole. There’s so much scientific proof out there that with the right rehabilitation method, these people could re-enter society after doing time.
There is no reason to condemn a person to die for one act in their life. As Stevenson said; we are not just the worst thing we’ve done.
With today’s society leaning more and more towards strict conservatism, and subsequently erasing years and years of hard work from civil rights movements, it’s ever so dire to read about the death penalty and the criminal justice system in itself.
Now that conservatives are on the rise, so is the question and demand to bring back / for the death penalty. This book goes over those affected by said penalty. Innocent people, disabled people, people with traumatic backgrounds, people born in poverty etc. It especially highlights the horrible racial bias in the criminal justice system.
Countless of people of colour have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to death or to die in prison. Tragically, thousands of black or brown juveniles have befallen the same fate.
This book makes you think on how inhumane it is to sentence someone to die either by death penalty or life imprisonment without parole. There’s so much scientific proof out there that with the right rehabilitation method, these people could re-enter society after doing time.
There is no reason to condemn a person to die for one act in their life. As Stevenson said; we are not just the worst thing we’ve done.