This article contains too many or overly lengthy quotations. Please help summarize the quotations. Consider transferring direct quotations to Wikiquote or excerpts to Wikisource.(April 2023)
Walter "Johnny D." McMillian (October 27, 1941 – September 11, 2013)[1] was a pulpwood worker from Monroeville, Alabama, who was wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death. His conviction was wrongfully obtained, based on police coercion and perjury. In the 1988 trial, under a controversial Alabama doctrine called "judicial override", the judge imposed the death penalty, although the jury had voted for a sentence of life imprisonment.
From 1990 to 1993, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals turned down four appeals. In 1993, after McMillian had served six years on Alabama's death row, the Court of Criminal Appeals reversed the lower court decision and ruled that he had been wrongfully convicted.
The controversial case received national attention beginning in the fall of 1992. Bryan Stevenson, McMillian's defense attorney, raised awareness on the CBS News program 60 Minutes. Journalist Pete Earley covered it in his book Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town (1995).[2] Stevenson featured this early case of his career in a TED talk and in his memoir Just Mercy (2014). This was adapted as an eponymous feature film, released in 2019. Jamie Foxx portrays McMillian and Michael B. Jordan stars as Stevenson.
^Obituary Walter McMillian, Tributes, nd, archived from the original on May 20, 2024, retrieved December 14, 2017
^Earley, Pete (1995). Circumstantial evidence : death, life, and justice in a southern town. New York: Bantam Books. ISBN 0-553-09501-3. OCLC 32201666. Archived from the original on 2024-05-20. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
Walter "Johnny D." McMillian (October 27, 1941 – September 11, 2013) was a pulpwood worker from Monroeville, Alabama, who was wrongfully convicted of murder...
Cretton and starring Michael B. Jordan as Bryan Stevenson, Jamie Foxx as WalterMcMillian, Rob Morgan, Tim Blake Nelson, Rafe Spall, and Brie Larson. It explores...
Justice and Redemption. In the memoir, Stevenson recounted his work with WalterMcMillian, who had been unjustly convicted and sentenced to death. Stevenson...
Michael McMillian is an American actor and writer, known for his roles as Henry Gibson on What I Like About You, Steve Newlin on the HBO series True Blood...
actor and writer Rodney McMillian (born 1969), American artist Theodore McMillian (1919–2006), American judge WalterMcMillian, American pulpwood worker...
Spider-Man 2 (2014) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). For playing WalterMcMillian in Just Mercy (2019) he received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination...
American actor, singer, songwriter, record producer, and comedian Jamie Foxx. McNary, Dave (February 13, 2019). "Director Reclaims Rights to Documentary '21...
Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. The film tells the story of WalterMcMillian and, in less detail, the stories of other Stevenson cases. The Equal...
Stevenson (Jordan) as he explores the case of a death row prisoner, WalterMcMillian, whom he fought to free. The film premiered at the Toronto International...
life imprisonment without parole. His most notable clients include WalterMcMillian, and Doyle Lee Hamm, whose 2018 execution was called off because an...
of the murder of Lauren Burk. WalterMcMillian – Released after 6 years on death row for a crime he did not commit. Walter Leroy Moody – Convicted of the...
‡ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Cliff Booth Jamie Foxx Just Mercy WalterMcMillian Tom Hanks A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Fred Rogers Al Pacino...
Upon a Time in Hollywood as Cliff Booth Jamie Foxx – Just Mercy as WalterMcMillian Tom Hanks – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood as Fred Rogers Al Pacino...
Justice in a Southern Town (1995), about the wrongful conviction of WalterMcMillian in Alabama, won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America...
Deal: The Movie (2016) – - Related". AllMovie. Retrieved 2 April 2019. "Woody McClain". IMDb. No Show Jones at IMDb "Becoming Astrid". IMDb.com. Retrieved...
and Redemption. The memoir centers around the case of his client, WalterMcMillian, who was sentenced to death in the 1980s after being charged with the...
Just Mercy, based on Bryan Stevenson's memoir about death row inmate WalterMcMillian's wrongful conviction, starring Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx. She...
Ian McKellen Earl of Southampton All Is True 2019 (19th) Tom Hanks ‡ Fred Rogers A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Jamie Foxx WalterMcMillian Just...
votes. McAdoo is the youngest player to have had a 50-point/20-rebound game. That season, with McAdoo aided by strong play from Jim McMillian and Randy...
a member. Macmillan was a protégé of the president of the Union Society Walter Monckton, later a Cabinet colleague; as such, he became secretary then junior...
Sterling K. Brown – Waves as Ronald Williams Jamie Foxx – Just Mercy as WalterMcMillian Aldis Hodge – Clemency as Anthony Woods Jonathan Majors – The Last...
Kowalewski John Lefelhocz Sarah Lucas David Mach Michael Craig-Martin Rodney McMillian Louise Nevelson Nam June Paik Niki de Saint Phalle Pablo Picasso Robert...
Layoffs". Hollywood Reporter. August 10, 2020. Retrieved August 25, 2020. McMillian, Graeme (September 18, 2020). "DC Universe Rebranding as Comics-Centric...
Global Information