Description
Just Mercy Vocabulary
Breakdown & Analysis
Litigation
I didn’t have a basic grasp of the complex appeals process that shaped death penalty litigation, a process that would in time
become as familiar to me as the back of my hand.
Tone
Tense
Feeling
Tense
Prior
Knowledge
None
Definition
The process of taking legal action
Connections
None
Disillusioned
Coming from a small college in Pennsylvania, I felt very fortunate to have been admitted, but by the end of my first year I?d grown
disillusioned.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Esoteric
The courses seemed esoteric and disconnected from the race and poverty issues that had motivated me to consider the law in
the first place.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Ambivalence
Steve was in his mid-thirties and had a passion and certainty that seemed the direct opposite of my ambivalence.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Aback
I was taken aback by his immediate belief that I had something to offer.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Plight
He moved on to other subjects, but it was clear that his heart and his mind were aligned with the plight of the condemned and
those facing unjust treatment in jails and prisons.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Ominously
I walked down a tunneled corridor to the legal visitation area, each step echoing ominously across the spotless tiled floor.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Constrain
It seemed that we were all cloaked in an unwelcome garment of racial difference that constrained, confined, and restricted us.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Formidable
I said no a lot because it made me happy to be wrapped in her formidable arms.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Indelible
It’s also about a dramatic period in our recent history, a period that indelibly marked the lives of millions of Americans?of all
races, ages, and sexes?and the American psyche as a whole.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Unprecedented
When I first went to death row in December 1983, America was in the early stages of a radical transformation that would turn us into an
unprecedentedly harsh and punitive nation and result in mass imprisonment that has no historical parallel.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Punitive
When I first went to death row in December 1983, America was in the early stages of a radical transformation that would turn us
into an unprecedentedly harsh and punitive nation and result in mass imprisonment that has no historical parallel.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Render
We have created a new caste system that forces thousands of people into homelessness, bans them from living with
their families and in their communities, and renders them virtually unemployable.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Exonerate
Scores of innocent people have been exonerated after being sentenced to death and nearly executed.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Privatization
The privatization of prison health care, prison commerce, and a range of services has made mass incarceration a moneymaking windfall for a few and a costly nightmare for the rest of us.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Vagrant
The next morning, when I arrived at work in another jeans and sneakers ensemble, she seemed startled, as if some
strange vagrant had made a wrong turn into the office.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Depraved
“This is Judge Key, and you don’t want to have anything to do with this McMillian case. No one really understands how depraved
this situation truly is, including me, but I know it’s ugly. These men might even be Dixie Mafia.”
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Indigent
?Well, I’m also not going to appoint you because I don’t think he’s indigent. He’s reported to have money buried all
over Monroe County.”
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Dilapidated
Educational opportunities for black children in the 1950s were limited, but Walter’s mother got him to the dilapidated ?colored
school” for a couple of years when he was young.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Subpoena
When Walter received a subpoena from Karen Kelly’s husband to testify at a hearing where the Kellys would be fighting over their
children’s custody, he knew it was going to cause him serious problems.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Animosity
Her lawyer objected to the crude questions posed to Walter by the husband’s attorney about the nature of his friendship, sparing him from
providing any details, but when he left the courtroom the anger and animosity toward him were palpable.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Divisive
The confluence of race and sex was a powerful force in dismantling Reconstruction after the Civil War, sustaining Jim Crow laws
for a century and fueling divisive racial politics throughout the twentieth century.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Unconscionable
But interracial dating, particularly with a married white woman, was for many whites, an unconscionable act.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Concede
After initially denying any direct involvement in the Pittman murder, Myers conceded that he may have played some
accidental role but quickly put the blame for the murder itself on more interesting local figures.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Culpability
Officials began to suspect that Myers was the sole killer and was desperately trying to implicate others to minimize his
Tone
culpability.
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Vindicate
When I finished, he apologized to me, but I suspected that he just wanted me to leave. He promised that the officers
Tonebe required to do some “extra homework on community relations.” I didn’t feel vindicated.
would
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Emphatic
He said it again emphatically, “You’ve got to beat the drum for justice.”
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Incredulous
When the sheriff explained the charge in crude terms, Walter was incredulous and couldn’t help but laugh at the
notion.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Adamant
Local police ignored the obvious evidence that the death was a hate crime and hypothesized that Donald must have been
involved in drug dealing, which his mother adamantly denied.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Embellishment
Ralph Myers’s story of the crime was pretty far-fetched; his knack for dramatic embellishment made even the most basic
allegations unnecessarily complicated.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Clemency
At that time, I asked the prison commissioner, who was communicating on an open telephone line to Governor George Wallace to grant
clemency on the grounds that Mr. Evans was being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Affluent
Only affluent Baldwin County to the south, with its beautiful Gulf of Mexico beaches, was atypical, with an African American
population of just 9 percent.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Seething
Now he felt himself coming back to life?but all he could feel was seething anger.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Disbar
He wrote a scathing letter published in the state bar association’s journal in which he vowed ?never to take another death penalty case, even
if they disbar me for my refusal” and urged other civil lawyers not to take death penalty cases.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Meticulous
The Court had justified reauthorization of the death penalty in the mid-1970s on the promise that proceedings would be subject to
heightened scrutiny and meticulous compliance with the law but then began to retreat from the existing review procedures.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Contentious
He became contentious and started making comments that were audible to the judge.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
Untimely
He ruled our evidence was ? untimely,” meaning that he could not consider it.
Tone
Feeling
Prior
Knowledge
Definition
Connections
7:54 Y MI
OLTE ull
Multicultural Litera…
TURN IN LATE
Just Mercy Vocabulary
Due January 21, 2022 11:59 PM
Instructions
In preparation for reading Just Mercy, complete
the embedded vocabulary exercise for ALL
WORDS. Read the sentence in EACH slide. Id
the tone (attitude of the writer), the feeling (your
attitude as a reader), any prior knowledge you
have about the word, the definition (use google if
you need to), and any connections to life and
society that you can make about the word. You
have been given the rights to edit the power
point slide so that you can do this assignment
within the power point presentation.
My work
PS
Just Mercy Vocabulary.pptx
o Attach
+ New
Points
100 points possible
Purchase answer to see full
attachment