Just Mercy-Ch.5 Reading Check w/ review of Ch.1 & 3

On what charge was Walter McMillian arrested? *Hint: Check pages 47 & 48

• The murder of Ronda Morrison

• Having had interracial relations with Karen Kelly

• Sodomy -- Myers claimed that Walter had assaulted him.

• Walter McMillian was arrested with no charges against him.

• The murder of Vickie Pittman.

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On page 49, Stevenson gives Myers’s account of his and McMillian’s supposed involvement in the murder of Ronda Morrison. Why was the story about McMillian making Myers drive him to murder Ronda Morrison suspicious?

• McMillian didn’t own a vehicle.

• Myers claims Walter made him drive because Walter had an injured arm.

• Myers didn’t know how to drive.

• It was well known that McMillian wouldn’t let anyone else drive his own vehicle.

• McMillian knew Myers and didn’t trust him. It doesn’t make sense that he would have involved Myers in a crime.

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Why was McMillian and Myers’s initial placement on death row (while they were waiting for the trial) especially shocking? *Hint: Check pages 52 & 53

• No one believed that either of them had actually killed anyone.

• It is illegal to hold pretrial detainees in a way that constitutes punishment because they have not been convicted of a crime yet.

• It was unclear how the prosecutors were able to find them spots on death row because death row is so overcrowded.

• Both McMillian and Myers were fully cooperating with the police investigation.

• McMillian and Myers weren’t going to be tried for a crime that was eligible for a death row sentence.

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In chapter 5, Walter's family claims that they feel like they are on death row, too. Why? *HINT: Check pages 92 & 93

• Walter was out in the woods hunting when he accidentally killed the girl so a death row sentence was too harsh.

• African-Americans in the South are subjected to discrimination on a daily basis.

• They were all standing next to him at the family fish fry when the police claimed Walter was committing the murder.

• Walter's house has fallen into disrepair because he is on death row and his wife and kids are really struggling to make ends meet.

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The title of chapter 5, "Of the Coming of John" comes from

• A gospel song mentioned in the chapter

• A short story mentioned in the chapter

• Bryan's nickname

• The name of a witness who comes forward to testify

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Which two men in chapter 5 want to help Bryan prove Walter's innocence?

• Ralph Myers and Gregory Peck

• Bill Hooks and Joe Hightower

• Tom Chapman and W.E.B. DuBois

• Sam Crook and Darnell Houston

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As to the pacing of our reading of Just Mercy thus far, please rate that by selecting one option:

• 1 - Far too fast and too much. I can't keep up at all!

• 2

• 3 - Just about right. I'm having to set aside time to read and am challenged, but this is manageable.

• 4

• 5 - Way too slow and not enough. I'm forgetting what I read when I pick the book back up because it's taking too long!