The Justice System In Just Mercy By Bryan Stevenson
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson gives an inside look at the twisted justice system, and how innocent lives are lost & ruined due to bias and injustice in the justice system. The book reflects on how there is corruption in the courts, how Bryan Stevenson overcame these difficulties to help Walter McMillian.
Walter McMillian was wrongly sentenced to death after someone murdered a girl at a store. He was betrayed by Ralph Myers, who gave false accusations about the case, and the officials, who wanted a quick outcome, indicted McMillian without considering any evidence that proved otherwise. We can compare this case to Brock Turner, who raped a girl behind the dumpsters. In contrast, he was given a three-month jail sentence. We can say that the justice
system does not favor minorities. Walter McMillian is black, while Brock Turner is white. It is widely known that minorities receive harsher sentences for the same crime than whites.
But justice is not easy too. Bryan Stevenson had to overcome obstacles to help Walter McMillian out of jail. There were bomb threats for helping oppressed people in jail. Walter took a span of three days to convince the judge that McMillian was in fact innocent rather than guilty. Even after McMillian was free, special care was taken that he does not receive backlash or lynching from people. But we also must consider that people with good intentions are silent in the face of injustice, which can make it difficult for people to achieve true justice. That is what Dr. Williams said at the AED meeting on November 16. He faced microaggressions based on his race, and was silent until the Dallas shootings, where he was at the trauma center operating on the Dallas police officers who were shot during the shooting.
Just Mercy provides an excellent overview of the corruptness of the justice system, along with several instances with the difficulties of achieving justice and Dr. Williams’s story of the Dallas shootings.
Walter McMillian was wrongly sentenced to death after someone murdered a girl at a store. He was betrayed by Ralph Myers, who gave false accusations about the case, and the officials, who wanted a quick outcome, indicted McMillian without considering any evidence that proved otherwise. We can compare this case to Brock Turner, who raped a girl behind the dumpsters. In contrast, he was given a three-month jail sentence. We can say that the justice
system does not favor minorities. Walter McMillian is black, while Brock Turner is white. It is widely known that minorities receive harsher sentences for the same crime than whites.
But justice is not easy too. Bryan Stevenson had to overcome obstacles to help Walter McMillian out of jail. There were bomb threats for helping oppressed people in jail. Walter took a span of three days to convince the judge that McMillian was in fact innocent rather than guilty. Even after McMillian was free, special care was taken that he does not receive backlash or lynching from people. But we also must consider that people with good intentions are silent in the face of injustice, which can make it difficult for people to achieve true justice. That is what Dr. Williams said at the AED meeting on November 16. He faced microaggressions based on his race, and was silent until the Dallas shootings, where he was at the trauma center operating on the Dallas police officers who were shot during the shooting.
Just Mercy provides an excellent overview of the corruptness of the justice system, along with several instances with the difficulties of achieving justice and Dr. Williams’s story of the Dallas shootings.