Stevenson
Herbert
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100

What year did Stevenson buy the small building near downtown Montgomery?

1989

100

What was Herbert's scheduled execution date?

August 18

100

What year did Ava Ansley and Stevenson open a nonprofit law center?

1989

100

Where is Ansley and Stevenson's law center located?

Tuscaloosa

200

Who was the man that Stevenson represented during there execution period?

Herbert Richardson

200

What was Herbert's plan in order to get his girlfriend back?

To make her feel threatened by a bomb, and he would come to her out of protection.

200

What year was Michael Lindsey execution? (Bonus points for month and day)

1989 (Bonus May 26)

200

Stevenson wrote a letter to the governor of what state?

Alabama

300

What did Stevenson name his new nonprofit legal services center?

Equal Justice Initiative (EJI).

300

When the officers came to him for his final meal, breakfast, lunch, Stamps, what did he take?

Nothing but him looking away.

300

What date did Stevenson ask the family in the back of the court room to contact him?

August 18

300

What state was Herbert treated in? (Veterans hospital if it helps).

Brooklyn, New York

400

Who were the people that Stevenson was talking to in the back of the court room? (This is after Herbert's hearing).

Rena Mae's family( Mother, Aunt, Friend, Sister)

400

What was the song that Herbert asked to play when he was getting executed?

The Old Rugged Cross

400

What year did the U.S Supreme court get impatient with challenges to capital punishments.

The late 1980's

400

What place does Stevenson have to rush to (Near the end of the chapter)?

The prison to meet Herbert

500

When Stevenson walked into the chamber what did Herbert ask him?

If they could pray.

500

How many years had Herbert spent on death row?

Eleven years.

500

When was the Alabama's new death penalty statue made?

1975

500

Where did Herbert move to get even closer to his girlfriend?

Dothan

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