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Stevenson goes to a state prison to meet inmates who are on death row and who are seeking appeals of their convictions or sentences. Among these is Walter "Johnny D." McMillian , an African-American man who was convicted of the 1986 murder of Ronda Morrison, an 18-year-old white girl.
Robin "Rocky" Myers is a 62-year-old intellectually disabled black man who was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 1993 for a crime he did not commit. With a vote of 9-to-3, an...
30 paź 2019 · Foxx costars as Walter McMillian, an African American pulpwood worker sent to Alabama’s death row in 1988 for the murder of a white woman, who maintains his innocence as his clock ticks down...
8 wrz 2019 · Several time, the film illustrates how the threat of the electric chair is used to coerce and intimidate people who have not even been convicted (McMillian was put on death row a year before...
In August 1988, a black man named Walter McMillian, known as Johnny D, was sentenced to death for the murder of a white teenage girl in Monroeville, Alabama. His trial lasted less than two days. Mr McMillian was with his family miles away when Ronda Morrison was killed. But it didn't matter.
24 gru 2019 · “Just Mercy” is saved from being an earnest, inert courtroom drama when it spends time on death row, where it is opened up and given depth by two strong, subtle performances, from Foxx and Rob...
21 sty 2020 · Just Mercy, a film directed by Destin Daniel Crettin, tells the story of one of Stevenson's first and most important cases. In 1987, he met a man on death row named Walter McMillian, who had been convicted of murdering a white woman he said he never met.
