Just Mercy Chapter Sixteen – The Stonecatchers’ Song of Sorrow Brayan Stevenson had been waiting for the Supreme Court decision on placing children on death row and give out terms of natural life imprisonment. Once it had been announced that this was no long the case, the office exploded with joy. That meant his clients Antonio Nunez and Ian Manuel with reduced prison sentence had an opportunity to be able to return to society, and not die in prison. Within a two year span Stevenson was also able to assist with children convicted of homicides, and sentence to life-without parole while still being juvenile. The Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional and placed a ban in 2012. This new ruling helped out Evan Miller and Kuntrell Jackson, while setting the precedent for no child, to…show more content… Stevenson took up the case after reading all the lack of evidence on Hinton. Hinton had been at this place of employment and couldn’t possibly have commit the crime. The gun expert was not qualified to even testify at all, the witness identified the wrong assailant. Hinton was sent to death row for the incompetence of others, along with a crime he had no knowledge of. Stevenson was noted saying. That were a total of four institutions that shaped our perspective with American race game. First slavery, then the reign of terror place into black folk, from hanging to being accused of a false crime only to get free labor, which in turn is another form of slavery, Jim Crow and last but not least mass incarceration.(299-301) The racial segregation really played a huge part in getting the sentencing that made others not care about a race of people they felt were disposable and who cares. Stevenson had the opportunity to view this up front, whereas, to court where the judge and the prosecutor would come from the back as friends and it was evident that the deal had already been barged in most
