Chapter six of the book Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson begins with Stevenson working late one night in his law office in Birmingham, Alabama. He received a call from a woman whose teenaged grandson had been incarcerated for murder and sentenced to die. Several of Stevenson’s other clients were on death row for crimes they had committed when they were sixteen or seventeen years old. At that time, Alabama held the record for the highest number of juveniles sentenced to death, more than any other state in America and more than any other country in the world. Stevenson couldn’t represent the boy due to his many cases but he agreed to visit him in jail so he drove to the county courthouse and read the boy’s case file.
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