In A Lesson Before Dying, Jefferson's lawyer resorts to using racist ideas to persuade the jury to spare Jefferson's life.
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"For God's sake, be merciful. He is innocent of all charges brought against him...I have no more to say except this. We must
live with our own conscience."
"Do you see a man sitting here?...No gentlemen, this skull here holds no plans. What you see is a thing that acts on
command."
"...look back to that second row. What you see there has been everything to him-mama, grandmother, godmother-
everything."
O "Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this."
"A cornered animal to strike quickly out of fear, a trait inherited from his ancestors in the deepest jungle of blackest Africa..."
