Entries tagged with “Just Mercy”
Issues
Federal Death Penalty
,Oct 22, 2020
World and European Day Against the Death Penalty: Expert Panel Discusses Systemic Flaws in U.S. Death Penalty
Expressing the hope “that we’ll be able to celebrate very soon, together with the American people, the abolition of the death penalty in the United States,” European Union Ambassador to the United States Stavros Lambrinidis opened the EU in the USA and Council of the Europe’s virtual commemoration of World and European Day Against the Death Penalty. “Let’s work together to get this done,” Lambrinidis said. As part of the commemoration, the Death Penalty Information Center and Witness to…
Issues
Nov 26, 2019
Death-Penalty Roles Inspire Actors to Take Stands for Social Justice, Against Death Penalty
Popular culture has the potential to change social attitudes, and actors in two eagerly anticipated movies focusing on the death penalty are hoping that their films will do just that. In recent interviews about their roles in the dramas Just Mercy and Clemency, actors Jamie Foxx, Alfre Woodard, and Aldis Hodge discuss how those films inspired them to open up about their past and affected their views on capital punishment. Just Mercy became highly personal for Foxx (pictured right, with Just…