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Just Mercy: Chapter 16
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- What legal victories do we learn of in the beginning of the chapter? The Supreme Court banned life in prison without parole sentences for juveniles convicted of non-homicide offenses and mandatory life in prison sentences for juveniles convicted of homicide (295).
- What additional ban does the author seek? A ban on jailing juveniles with adults (296).
- What "four institutions in American history [does the author believe] have shaped our approach to race and justice" (299)? Slavery (299), racially-motivated terrorism in the period from the collapse of Reconstruction till World War II (299), Jim Crow (300), and mass incarceration (301).
- What was "convict leasing" (299)?und the end of the nineteenth century. Convicts would be "leased" to businesses for, basically, slave labor, and black people would be convic It was essentially another form of slavery begun aroted of false and/or rid
- Why did EJI take on approximately two hundred new cases following the bans mentioned at the beginning of the chapter? Many inmates sentenced as juveniles could now have their sentences reconsidered; however, most of these cases were in states where inmates had "no clear right to counsel" (301).
- After the ban on life in prison sentences for juveniles, the author and EJI decide to start by helping those who had been imprisoned the longest. Who was the first person released because of this ban, and what was the reaction to the pronouncement of his Robert Caston, who had been imprisoned for forty-five years. When his release was pronounced, everyone in the courthouse cheered (306).
- What is meant by "stonecatcher"? This factors into the chapter's title and the author's conversation with the woman on the courthouse steps. Throwing stones is an allusion to the biblical practice of stoning criminals. The idea of a stonecatcher alludes to Jesus intervening in the stoning of a woman by telling her accusers that he who is without sin (which is no one) should throw the first sto
