In 1983, while he was still a law student, Bryan Stevenson began working for the Southern Prisoners Defense Committee. He was as
ked to visit a man who had been on death row at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center for two years and still had not been assigned an attorney. Stevenson’s job was to convey a simple message. What was that message?
The question has been referenced from Just Mercy Movie.
Bryan Stevenson was a law student but eager to to make his mark and started working for Southern Prisoners Defense Committee. There he met Mr Walter McMillian who had been on death row at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center for two years.
Bryan despite being warned by his fellows and seniors took the case and conveyed the message that he would help him or the black africans and would bring him out of this case
Bryan Stevenson is an American lawyer, social justice activist and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, who helps in fighting poverty and challenging racial discrimination in the criminal justice.
When he was 28 years of age, he was assigned to work as a defense attorney on the case of Walter McMillian, who insisted on his innocence even after he was sentenced to the death penalty and whom after two years on death row didn't yet have a lawyer to take his case
Bryan Stevenson job was to convey to this man Walter McMillian one simple message which is "You will not be killed in the next year".
