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Don't miss this award-winning movie 

 Just Mercy

which Warner Bros. Pictures has made FREE for online streaming throughout the month of June across all digital renting platforms.

 

Based on the bestselling memoir by Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy tells the true story of Walter McMillian, a black man wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in Alabama in 1988. 

  • Colorado became the 22nd U.S. state to abolish capital punishment Monday after Governor Jared Polis signed death penalty repeal bill SB 20-100 into law and commuted the sentences of the three men currently on the state's death row to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Catholic Mobilizing Network, 3.23.20

 

 

 

 

  • Federal Administration will move to speed death penalty in mass murder cases,  says Attorney General Barr  - CNN,  8/12/19

 

  • Federal Government to Resume Capital Punishment After Nearly Two Decade Lapse - justice.gov7/25/19

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