Final Thoughts (Chapter 14 - End of book)
Welcome back! This is going to be my final blog post. It has been nice to be able to communicate my thoughts through writing and in a less stressful way, as I don't have as much pressure on me as I do when I am writing an English essay! Anyways, I have finally finished Just Mercy by Brian Stevenson. It was a good read and I highly recommend it for anyone that is looking for a good non-fiction book. As I was reading this book and was introduced to the thousands of people whose lives have been forever changed by the criminal justice system, I began to think about death penalties and life sentences. I began to wonder... what makes someone so deserving of a death penalty or a life sentence? Is anyone? Should people be easily assigning sentences as harsh as the death penalty or life sentence without parole? Where can we draw the line? Throughout this book, I learned of so many stories that could have ended differently if it weren't for the intervention of being wrong...