What famous novel was written in Monroe County, AL, and how is it relevant to Just Mercy?

The
novel that was written about Monroe County, Alabama is To Kill a
Mockingbird by Harper Lee, one of the most famous modern American novels. The setting
is the fictional town of Maycomb, which is based on Monroeville, where Lee grew up. Monroeville
is the county seat of Monroe County.

To Kill a
Mockingbird is extremely relevant to the themes that Bryan Stephenson treats in
. These themes include racism in society and racial inequalities in the
criminal justice system. Within those inequalities, the similarities include the relationships
between defense attorneys, many of whom are white, and the people they defend, many of whom are
black. Lees novel takes place in the 1930s, when juries almost always were completely composed
of white people, so the idea of a jury of ones peers was out of reach for most black people on
trial.

In Lees novel as in the case of Walter McMillan that Stevenson
presents, a black mana character named Tom Robinsonwas accused of a crime related to a white
woman. In the fictional case, the woman accused the man of raping her. In the McMillan case, the
man was accused of murdering the woman. Robinson was convicted of rape, which was a capital
crime, and incarcerated pending appeal by his white lawyer; he attempted escape and was killed.
Stevenson focuses on the death penalty and also presents numerous other cases in which it has
been applied.

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