Herbert Richardson was convicted of killing an 11-year-old girl with a pipe bomb and put on death row, and his story features in the new film "Just Mercy."
"When I was prepping for the film, I asked Eva how she keeps going in the face of so much working against her, and she said, 'If all I can do is bring a little hope to someone, that's enough. No one needs to feel alone,'" Brie Larson said of her real-life counterpart, Eva Ansley.
Walter McMillan was exonerated after spending six years on death row for a crime he didn't commit, but the trauma continued to plague him for the rest of his life.
In the film "Just Mercy," attorney Bryan Stevenson fights for one of his first-ever clients, Walter McMillian, who was wrongfully convicted of killing a young white woman named Ronda Morrison.