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Introduction

“Some states have no minimum age for prosecuting children as adults; millions of kids were sent

to adult jails and prisons to serve long prison terms, some under the age of twelve”(Stevenson 15).

Chapter One

“Racial integrity laws were part of a plan to replicate slavery’s racial hierarchy and reestablish the subordination of African Americans”(Stevenson 28).

Chapter Two

“Stand Your Ground, laws empowering armed citizens to use lethal force(Stevenson 43).

Chapter Three

“The Supreme Court ruled in Strauder v. West Virginia that excluding black people from jury  service was unconstitutional, but juries remained all-white for decades afterward(Stevenson 59).

Chapter Four

“ Death sentences resulting from judge override were an anomaly”          ( Stevenson 70).

Chapter Five

“Arresting someone for coming forward with credible evidence that challenged the reliability of a capital murder conviction”(Stevenson 114).

Chapter Six

“The prosecutor insisted that Charlie be tried as an adult, and he announced that he intended to seek the maximum punishment permitted by law. The judge agreed that this was capital murder and that the boy should be tried as an adult”(Stevenson 120).

Chapter Seven

“ McCleskey v. Kemp, a case that presented convincing empirical evidence that the race of the victim is the greatest predictor of who gets the death penalty in the United States”(Stevenson 142).

Chapter Eight

“Pennsylvania sentencing law was inflexible: For those convicted of second-degree murder, mandatory life imprisonment without the possibility of parole was the only sentence”(Stevenson 150).

Chapter Nine

“The State had no physical evidence linking Mr. Mcmillian to the crime, the State had no motive, the State had no witnesses to the crime, the State had only the testimony of Ralph Myers”(Stevenson 168).

Chapter Ten

“Brutally murdering someone requires the State to hold the person accountable to protect the public, but to completely disregard a person’s disability would be unfair in evaluating what degree of culpability to assign and what sentence to impose”(Stevenson 199).

Chapter Eleven

“State submitted a peculiar pleading to the Court of Criminal Appeals. The attorney general’s motion asked the court to stay the litigation and not issue a ruling because they may have uncovered exculpatory evidence favorable to Mr. McMillian that could entitle him to a new trial, but they need more time to complete the investigation”(Stevenson218).

Chapter Twelve

“In 1996, Congress passed welfare reform legislation that gratuitously included provision that authorized states to ban people with drug convictions from public benefits and welfare”(Stevenson 237).

Chapter Thirteen

“State and federal courts have persistently insulated prosecutors from accountability for egregious misconduct that results in innocent people being sent to death row”(Stevenson 246).

Chapter Fourteen

“The police had collected seminal fluid and blood, but the state chose not to present it in court and then destroyed it before it could be tested by the defense”(Stevenson 257).

Chapter Fifteen

“ The prosecutor admitted that his jury had been illegally selected in a racially discriminatory manner, but courts refused to review the claim because the defense lawyer failed to make an adequate objection, so Tarver was executed”(Stevenson 275).

Chapter Sixteen

“The racial terrorism of lynching in many ways created the modern death penalty. America’s embrace of speedy execution was, in part, an attempt to redirect the violent energies of lynching while assuring white southerners that black men would still pay the ultimate price”(Stevenson 299).

Epilogue

“I reflected on how mass imprisonment has littered the national landscape with carceral monuments of reckless and excessive punishment and ravaged communities with our hopeless willingness to condemn and discard the most vulnerable among us”(Stevenson 313).

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#JustMercy
This is an older book but a new movie with relations to recent events going on in America. Searching up this hashtag brings up death penalties and injustice.

#DeathPenalty
The name Walter Barton pops up when you search this specific hashtag which talks about the execution that recently happened and how the man claimed he was innocent. Also seen a few posts tagging Just Mercy.

#BlackLivesMatter
The posts associated with this hashtag are racial discrimination and hate crimes.

#Justice
This hashtag is associated with justice for people like George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.

#Movement
There have been many movements that define the laws we obey and the rules laid out and this definitely made a difference in the system.

#Activists
This was a big moment to get a wrongly convicted man out of jail and was a social act for justice.

#Inequality
This hashtag can relate to the topic because it proves the unjustified system has flaws

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Criminal Justice Reform Commisions
This gives insight to how certain states plan to deal with fixing wrongly convicted people and investigate the causes of them

https://www.innocenceproject.org/criminal-justice-reform-commissions-case-studies/

California's Plan
This shows how California made it more easier, more efficient, and cheaper as well as providing relief to people who are convicted.

https://californiainnocenceproject.org/2013/10/california-steps-up-for-the-wrongfully-convicted/

Self-Correction of Wrongful Convictions
This source allows us to view confirmation bias inside trials and even a little insight in "system level".

https://academic.oup.com/lpr/article-abstract/17/4/337/5074232?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Predicting and Preventing Wrongful Convictions
These are ways to prevent a wrongful conviction which leads to preventing a bad outcome in these situations.

https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/predicting-and-preventing-wrongful-convictions

Causes of Wrongful Convictions
This website brings many useful tips because it shows how people can be wrongly convicted and how it goes against the procedures of a trial.

http://www.newenglandinnocence.org/causes-of-wrongful-convictions

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This picture represents people of color fighting for laws that protect them from discrimination. There are no laws that do so and they want justice in the system.

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This picture represents how people fight for laws that don’t prevent people from gaining their rights. In this picture it shows women fight for being able to have an abortion and a law shouldn’t prevent them.

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This picture represents a judge ignoring peoples voice and fights. Judges tend to go by laws that are then proven to be wrongful and actually hurt people. They have been going by this instead of listening to the people.

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This picture represents scenarios in which a judge issues a ruling that overlooks legal precedents or past constitutional interpretations in favor of protecting individual rights and serving a broader social or political agenda.

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This picture represents how laws affect people of color behind bars. They are trapped because of the lack of support they receive and tend to stay behind bars.

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Fiorela

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Jasmine

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Giselle

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Hilario
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