Mercy, Justice, and Unmerited Grace
Last night some of my family members and I sat down to watch the movie, "Just Mercy." It follows the story of a young lawyer, newly graduated from Harvard. As an African American raised in the north, he goes to the south and meets a new kind of opposition to his work of representing prisoners on death row. This young lawyer takes on an African American client accused of murdering a 19 year old white girl some years earlier. Throughout his investigation he find unmistakable evidence of his client's innocence and uses the justice system as it was created to give the accused man a fair trial. Yet, he is faced with overwhelming opposition from the white community -- police, judges, and residents alike. Despite that, this young lawyer fights the fear and racism he and his client and the African American community face. To this day he and his team have saved over 140 people from death row. This powerful film brought tears to my eyes throughout multiple scen...