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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...
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.
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...
Just Mercy: Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. With Jamie Foxx, Charlie Pye Jr., Michael Harding, Christopher Wolfe. World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.
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...
4 paź 2020 · Raw and powerful, the film tells their stories: Stevenson a young black lawyer fresh out of Harvard, setting out to help death-row inmates and challenge the racial prejudice he too experiences ...
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...
