When he first heard the finished number, Brooks said, "I was very moved in fact, the first time I went to the studio where John was recording for the movie, when it ended, I had tears in my eyes." In the musical and film re-make, the play deals with prisoners who put aside ...
Alabama in 1985. Despite having no witnesses and no fingerprint evidence, the State convicted him by saying the murder weapon, a gun, was at his mother’s home. He spent nearly 30 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. He was exonerated in 2015. The movie, ‘Just Mercy,...