Humans have realized throughout the years since we have been on this planet that history repeats itself. They have also been proving innocent people guilty since the beginning of time, to prove certain situations that they would go to extremes to prove one person guilty. According to Pew Research Center found in 2015, “56% favor the death penalty for people convicted of murder, while 38% are opposed”. When in 1996 “ 78% favored the death penalty, while just 18% were opposed”. In the novel written by Bryan Stevenson, “Just Mercy”, the general population in almost 20 years have figure out that the justice system is not always correct. After reading the novel,”Just Mercy” and other sources, I feel that the US and other countries are repeating history when it comes to figuring, arresting, and potentially killing an innocent civilian, such as many of the inmates Stevenson met with. …show more content…
One of the first meetings he has with an inmate, he finds himself oddly surprised. He writes “ I was confused on what he was about to do, then it made sense. Henry tipped his head back and started to sing. This confused me and the guard who was pushing him. The guard stopped pushing him.” (10) Even though this may seem like nothing, it means a lot because some humans think that death row inmates are all hardened criminals. Before Stevenson had heard him sing, he was wondering to himself why this man was on death row. He did not fit the “death row criteria”. Not every criminal is a hardened criminal as we see in this novel, most inmates are wrongly accused of some others