After studying at Harvard University, Brian Stevenson could start a very profitable career. However, he decides to go to Alabama to defend the wrongly convicted, with the support of a local activist, Eva Ansley.
One of his first cases – his most infuriating – was that of Walter McMillian, who was sentenced to death in 1987 for the high-profile murder of an 18-year-old girl. And this, despite a large body of evidence proving his innocence and a criminal with dubious motivation to testify against him once…
Released in late January 2020 to general polite indifference, The Path of Justice was unfortunately a pretty serious financial failure for Warner, grossing just over $50 million for the major. No pun intended, that’s pretty unfair; The work signed by Destin Daniel Cretton deserves a real re-evaluation.
Tandem Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx, the film tells the true story of the struggle of African-American lawyer Brian Stevenson.Equal Justice Initiative To protect the most deprived prisoners, illegally or wrongfully sentenced to death. A brilliant, not to mention admirable, man who helped free no fewer than 140 prisoners from death row. Four of them also feature in the film.
The character played by Jamie Foxx, despite the absolute proof of his innocence, will spend six years in a 3 m² cell in inhumane conditions. If the film is certainly not a masterpiece, and Hollywood has already dealt with such a theme many times, it remains a strong case against the death penalty, unfortunately, as relevant as ever.
according to Death Penalty Information CenterSince 1973, at least 200 people wrongly sentenced to death in the United States have been exonerated. This shows the appalling scale of the miscarriage rate in the land of Uncle Sam…
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