I don't think the threshold question of the death penalty is, 'Do people deserve to die for the crimes they've committed?' I think the threshold question is, 'Do we deserve to kill?''
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.A brass star on the Alabama State Capitol's portico marks the location where Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as the first and only president of the Confederacy. Today, just a mile away, atop a grassy knoll, a new kind of monument stands.
The National Memorial to Peace and Justice memorializes the thousands of black Americans lynched between 1877 and 1950."There were lynchings that took place where they would hang someone and then they wouldn't let the family cut the body down for four days because they wanted other people of color to see that hanging, to see that violence," Stevenson told"Nightline.
The National Memorial to Peace and Justice memorializes the thousands of black Americans lynched between 1877 and 1950.Since the 1980s, Stevenson has dedicated his life to fighting for justice, working with his organization to remove more than a hundred men and women from death row. Speaking to"Nightline" co-anchor Byron Pitts, he remembered being reticent to speak to the media at the beginning of his career.
Actor Michael B. Jordan portrays Stevenson in the new film while Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx plays one of Stevenson's first clients, Walter McMillian.Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx star in "Just Mercy," 2019.McMillian was convicted in 1988 for the murder of a young white woman in Monroeville, Alabama. Despite multiple alibi witnesses, the judge overrode the jury's sentencing verdict of life in prison and sentenced him to death.
"He was terrific. I think he does an amazing role in the film, and the only thing I asked him not to do, which would push the boundaries a little bit, is I asked him not to go on some lawyer diet," Stevenson said."I said, 'You can keep the 'Creed' [and] 'Black Panther' body when you play me." "I try to get up every morning and live the best life that I can live," Hinton told"Nightline.""There's nothing in this world that's more important than freedom. And when you lose your freedom, you lose it in a way that you're being told what to eat, what to wear, who can come see you...how long you can talk on the phone, or whatever. You lose everything."
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