Just Mercy Research Paper

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North Carolina Laws for Imprisoned People In the United States, one in twenty-five people on death row are innocent (Ferner). This is true because people are wrongly convicted of crimes they did not commit everyday. Our judicial system is not as perfect as it would seem. There are many factors that tie into this, sometimes information is withheld, or racism between citizens and the police becomes a conflict, and much more. In the book Just Mercy, a story of justice and redemption, written by Bryan Stevenson, it has many different stories about wrongly imprisoned people and their stories. Today in America, we could do a lot better about letting people get wrongly convicted for crimes they never committed. However, in North Carolina the compensation is a good thing and does well for the wrongly imprisoned people. In North Carolina, if you are wrongly imprisoned and are exonerated you receive fifty-thousand dollars per year you were in prison, plus job training, college tuition, up to seventy-five-hundred-thousand dollars (Welty). For example, there were two men who were wrongly An overview of the case is Marsha is a poor, white mom from Alabama. A bad hurricane hit her house and it destroyed everything she and her husband Glen had. Marsha became pregnant and this was going to be her seventh child, not to mention the child was not planned. She went into the old trailer to take a bath and then violent labor started and she had the baby. It was stillborn so she just buried it. The neighbor noticed and called the cops. She was charged with capital murder and sentenced to death. She was finally exonerated and got to go back home to her family. Just Mercy is a book with lots of cases that are about wrongly convicted and imprisoned people. Bryan Stevenson in the book and real life is doing a great job with helping prove to the court that the people are innocent

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