Studied by 9 peopleWhat is mercy?
Compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone whom is within ones power to punish or harm.
Who is the narrator of the book?
Bryan Stevenson
What is Bryan’s occupation?
Lawyer
Bryan’s life’s work has been devoted to what?
Helping condemned prisoners.
Bryan’s life work was inspired when he had an internship with what group?
Southern Prisoners Defense Committe.
What happened that taught Bryan how it felt to be targeted for being black?
He was in the car when the cops searched his car without a warrant.
Which death penalty case taught Bryan the most about our flawed justice system?
Walter’s Case
Bryan explained that ___________ in the South held unique danger for black men.
Fears of interracial sex and marriage.
Walter McMillian was implicated by which “witness”?
Ralph Meyers
Which of walter’s choices set in motion a chain of events that severly damaged his reputation.
He cheated on his wife with a white girl
Who had been murdered while at work at the local cleaners?
Ronda Morrison
There were several reasons why the police were hasty in charging someone for Rona’s murder. (Best answer.)
Ronda’s Father was the mayor.
What was unusal about the location wehre Ralph and Walter were hosued before their trials?
They were on death row.
About a dozen witnesses could verify that Walter was _______ at the time the murder was committed.
At the fish fry at his fouse
What was a threat that Sheriff Tate repeatedly made to Walter?
That he would be lynched.
What is interesting about Walter’s hometown of Monroeville, Alabama?
Author of To Kill A Mockingbird was from there.
What was the name of Bryan and Eva Ansley’s nonprofit law center?
Equal Justice Iniative
Where was their law center located
Alabama
Which did Bryan mention was one of the difficulties associated with running a nonprofit law center?
Inability to get a good salary.
Spending time with Herbert Richardson, the Vietnam veteran, on the night of his execution caused Bryan Stevenson to realize what?
EVERYONE at the jail took the executions personally, and were hurt.
Darnell Houston called Bryan to report that Bill Hooks lied about seeing Walter leave the cleaners on the day of Ronda’s murder. Houston revealed that Hooks was actually where?
NAPA
Bryan discussed his fourteen-year old client named Charlie. One of the traumas Charlie faced was the near death of his mother at the hands of her abusive husband. What was the other one?
Raped at the adult prison.
What was the name of Bryan’s new EJI lawyer who helped on the McMillian case?
Michael O’Conner
What did Trina, Ian, and Antonio’s life-without parole in adult prison sentences demonstrate?
Inhumane
To what did Ralph Myers testify in the rule 32 hearing with Judge Norton?
He lied under oath.
What did Chapman and Valeska do to keep the black community out of the courtroom on the second day of the Rule 32 hearing?
Metal Detectors and Dogs
What percentage of the United States prison population has a diagnosed mental illness.
50%
What factor/s contributed to the rise in incarcerations of people with mental illness?
Segregation cells, disabled prisoners were not taken care of.
What contributed to Avery jenkins mental illness?
Abusive foster homes.
What did listening to Avery’s story in court help the “Confederate” prison guard realize?
He had been tramatized from his foster care too.
What was Judge Norton’s ruling in the Rule 32 hearing?
Ruled to uphold Walter’s conviction.
What did the Alabama court of Criminal Appeals rule in the McMillian case?
Invalidate walters conviction.
Ultimately, what did District Attorney Tom Chapman decide to do with the charges against Walter?
Walter’s trial was dropped.
Of the women on death row, what are the two crimes for which they are most often convicted?
Crimes against abusive partners, and crimes against abusive children
To what are imprisoned women more vulnerable?
Sexual abuse from male prison guards or other employees.
What was the Equal Justice Initiative able to do for Marsha Colbey?
Her Conviction overturned.
How did the community of Monroeville feel about Walter’s exoneration?
Family was happy, others were not.
To what business did Walter return after his exoneration?
Logging buisness
What did Walter do for money after his injury?
Bought and sold car parts.
Including walter, how many innocent people were exonerated from death row since 1976.
Fifty people
What happened to Bryan’s grandfather when Bryan was 16 years old?
He was murdered.
What did Bryan argue to the US supereme court about juveniles being sentenced to die in prison?
Cruel for minors to die in prison.
With what was Walter diagnosed?
Dementia
Why did Bryan feel that Jimmy Dill’s death sentence was unjust?
Mentall impaired, tramitacally scarred, not a good defense team
Upon what word does Bryan reflect as he thinks about himself, his work, and all of his clients?
Broken
Bryan wrote that if we can embrace our brokenness, then we would desire what?
Mercy
What did the supreme court rule in bryans 2010 case regarding children sentenced to life without parole for non-homicide crimes?
Unconstitutional
Into what type of work did Bryan and the EJI expand?
Race + Poverty Iniatives
Whom does Bryan believe deserves mercy the most?
Those that haven’t earned it, and don’t deserve it.
What is a stone catcher?
Person who catches stones that are cast at the sinners.
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