s mission is to
challenge racial and economic bias in the U.S. justice system, and his clients are people on
death row, people of color who have been marginalized in society, victimized by the system, and
convicted of crimes they didnt commit. Stevenson sees what the public does not see and has
little awareness ofa criminal justice system that is badly brokenand he struggles to show mercy
to his clients in a system that amounts to nothing short of institutionalized racism. It
persecutes people of color and and puts many innocent people to death.
In
1989, the Supreme Court ruled that people who commit crimes at the age sixteen or seventeen are
not exempt from the death penalty. Based on Stevensons experience, the majority of these young
people are poor people and African Americans. In chapter four of ,
Stevenson witnesses an execution for the first...
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