![]() The effect is an opening up that doesn’t normally come from a fundraiser presentation. By the time he shares his simple but powerful ideas-like his oft-repeated belief that each of us is “more than the worst thing we’ve done”-listeners are invested in every word. ![]() Even onstage, he speaks in a way that makes the audience lean in and listen close. Stevenson, 59, is soft-spoken and earnest. They’d likely heard him speak many times before. ![]() 2 Death Penalty Information Center, Execution Web. 1,548 1,548 people have been run in the U.S. 1 Death Penalty Information Middle, Innocence Database. Most knew what EJI does and who Stevenson is. 190 people have been exonerated also released from death row since 1973. The poet Elizabeth Alexander, who read at President Obama’s first inauguration, was there, as was musician Jon Batiste. Though the film begins in 1989, many of the themes upon which it touches, including racial injustice, are still. ![]() The attendees assembled in a hotel ballroom in Midtown Manhattan were a mix of philanthropists, scholars and attorneys. Based on Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson’s memoir of the same name, Just Mercy tells the story of Walter McMillian, a Black man wrongly convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a white woman. ![]() In mid-September, human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson took the stage at the 30th-anniversary gala for the Equal Justice Initiative, the Montgomery, Alabama–based nonprofit he founded to provide legal representation to individuals who have been wrongfully convicted, unfairly sentenced or subject to prison abuse. ![]()
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