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Montgomery, alabama, where the demons of dixie still stand on the lawn. The memorial was haunting, a dark truth one man thought america should see. I cant imagine creating something that may engage people. And yet here we are. Reporter i walked with Bryan Stevenson through this copper canyon, a sobers space, dedicated to black men and women lynched in america. What do you want people to sense . I think its the sense that this violence was lifted up over people. People dont know what it was like to live in a space where were you surrounded by such torture and terror and violence. And nobody did anything. Reporter stevenson views americas dark past as directly connected to what he sees as her trouble present. We have the highest rate of incarceration because we have allowed ourselves to be governed by fear and anger. It was the same fear and anger that allowed us to be involved in genocide and lynching. Reporter getting 135 people off death row. Data suggests that for every nine people executed, one has been exonerated. His lifes work has been memorialized in a new film just mercy. We all need grace. We all need mercy. I hope from watching the movie and thinking more critically people will kind of see this issue the way i see it. I dont think the threshold question of the Death Penalty is do people deserve to die for the crimes theyve committed, i think the threshold question is, do we deserve to kill . Reporter it comes at an appropriate time. They will resume Capital Punishment at the federal level after nearly two decades. Actor michael b. Jordan portrays stevenson in the film. You a lawyer . Yes, maam. My name is Bryan Stevenson. Reporter and Academy Award winner, jamie foxx, plays one of his first death row clients. Walter mcmillen. All they can think of is i look like a man who could kill somebody. Thats not what i think. Reporter what inspired you to want to take this project on . Nobodys perfect, but hes really close. Hes a much better person than i am. Hes really beating the drum for justice, nonstop. Reporter Walter Mcmillen, the character you play. The most important movie i ever do. Reporter really . When we talk about importance, im talking about the importance of the message. And when you go on your social media, and youre able to see a young black man being killed by a police officer, because it allows us to address those types of symptoms in an artistic way. Heres Walter Mcmillen. In a sense, wrongly convicted of a crime that, a city hed never been in, a person he never met and all of a sudden he sits on death row. Reporter before his trial. Before his trial. The worst thing you can give a death row inmate is hope, and all of a sudden, hope walks in, in the form of Bryan Stevenson. You dont know what it is down there, youre guilty from the moment youre born. Reporter when you say guilty from the moment youre born. I grew up in texas. I was 8 years old and i got called [ bleep ] by a grown man. How is me being born, how can i receive all of this hate . When jamie plays walter, i think he exposes the agony of being wrongly convicted and the trauma. Reporter what do you think of michael b. Jordan playing you. Im honored. He was terrific. The only thing i asked him not to do is to go on some lawyer drive. I said you can keep the creed body. Its to achieve justice. And as long as you keep fighting this, someone from your county has literally gotten away with murder. Reporter stevenson and his organization, the equal Justice Initiative, have dedicated themselves to changing the criminal Justice System and peoples lives. One of those lives changed, anthony ray hickman. You can say that you got an innocent man off death row. Reporter we first met hinton almost five years ago, just days after he was released from alabamas death row where he had served 30 straight years for two murders he did not commit. Would you believe, this is the first time ive been in the rain in 30 years . Its, it feels wonderful. Yes, it feels wonderful. Reporter but now, thanks to stevenson, whats left of this life is all his. Whats freedom taste like to a grown man . Ooh. Freedom tastes good. It is delicious. Theres nothing in this world thats more important than freedom. And when you lose your freedom, you lose everything. Reporter he has his freedom, full time job at stevens equal Justice Initiative and has written his own book, the sun does shine. And his smile. What the criminal Justice System took from anthony ray hinton, time nor treasures can restore. No one sees when im at home by myself the tears. No one sees the scars that is perhaps there forever. Reporter you still cry . Oh, yes. Reporter why . Well, i lived in fear. I fear that any night the police could kick the door down and say i did something. Reporter really . Still . Othh, absolutely. If they did it once they could do it again. Reporter whens the last time you cried . Oh, this morning. I think if people saw what i saw on a regular basis, if they saw children condemned to die in prison, mentally ill people being abused they would want change. But our system is so insulated they dont see it. Reporter for all the darkness you see you are an optimistic man. I think hopefulness is a requirement to do what i do. But if they take me to that jail tonight im going out smiling. Cause i got my truth back. Reporter thanks to Bryan Stevenson, Walter Mcmillen won his freedom in 1993. He died in 2013. For jordan, one of the films producers, this was an opportunity to showcase diversity both on and off screen. You push for a collusion rider, whi which is new. It means that groups are being heavily considered for a major role behind the camera, black and brown communities, minorities. Women, from the lbgtq community. Reporter what do you want audiences to take from this . I want them to open themselves up. What was great about the movie is it makes them a human story. I want people to be hopeful. I think Bryan Stevenson is the most hopeful, optimistic person there is. I think if we can create a consciousness that bias and bigotry is fundamentally unacceptable in this country, well think differently. It wont take six years to get Walter Mcmillen off of death row. Reporter as Bryan Stevenson knows, justice deferred beats justice denied. But its a hardfought hope that assures him, america someday will do better. Just mercy is in theaters now. Up next, a devoted mother murdered. Officials suspecting her best friend of the ultimate betrayal. And wondering if that was the last time i was going to do that thing. I thought. Im not letting anything take me away from my family, that loves me and needs me, without a fight. When i came to Cancer Treatment centers of america, it felt. So different from any other hospital that wed ever been to. Whether it be spiritual, physical, emotional. 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Made sweeter by the birth of a baby girl. Heidi broussard welcoming her you new baby. Everybody was coming over. It was amazing. Reporter the best friend there in the delivery room. Megan came down. She was the first one down. And she was there the whole entire time. Reporter megan, just weeks away from delivering her own baby. They were planning to try to have the baby on the same day and all this. And they were excited together. Meagan and heidi. Reporter but Authorities Say megan never had her baby. That she faked the whole pregnancy and carried out the ultimate betrayal. The desperate search for a missing mother. She took her child to school and just vanished. That texas mother had just given birth. Reporter megan accused of kidnapping baby margo. Her best friend found strangled to death but no one yet charged with the murder. Makes me angry. These beautiful kids dont deserve this. She didnt deserve this. Reporter magnetic and spontaneous is how he describes his 33yearold fiance, Heidi Broussard. She loved music. Anything you brought up, she could always talk about. And her laugh and her smile were so contagious. Reporter december 12th started like any other day. Shane leaves for work while heidi drops their young son off at school. But when shane returns home that afternoon no sign of heidi or the newborn. I just got home and nobody was there. Reporter hours go by and he begins to panic. Shane calls his father ty. He says somethings not right, dad, shes not here, and then he started noticing nothing was missing, nothing to take care of margo. Reporter and you knew wasnt volunteery. No. If you nomar goknow margo, she w leave like this. Shed tell a friend. Reporter shane turning to family and friends for support, including megan, heidis best friend. Theyd met years earlier at a bible school. I was like, have you heard from her . Shes like no. She started crying on the phone. Like where is heidi. And, yeah, she played it off. So well. Reporter even as he pleaded toness camer to news cameras for help, some were skeptical about shane. I just want her safe. Statistically, its almost always the fiance, the husband, the boy prinfriend, the man in womans life. Not this time. Reporter instead, it was the best Friend Police focussed on. After investigators started talking to people close to heidi, they say meagans story wasnt adding up. She claimed to have given birth december 12th, the same day they disappeared. The gray nissan was at the and the complex the day they disappeared and they saw a woman carrying a small infant being helped into the rear of a vehicle by a front seat passenger who they later identified as megan in a lineup. Megans cell phone was also pinged in that area at the same time that heidi goes missing. Cell phone pings dont lie. Reporter investigators also say they dug into her internet search history. There are nearly 200 searches for the name Heidi Broussard in the days surrounding heidis disappearance. On the day that heidi disappears, along with baby margo, on the same account, on the same device, we believe, there is a search around 10 31 p. M. That day, that asks for hits on reason for an amber alert. Heres the kicker. At that time, no amber alert had been issued. Reporter a week later in houston, authorities track down megans former boyfriend. The two were still living to the at this house. They find them in the Grocery Store buying baby formula forehis new baby girl. And they show him a flier, a flier with baby margos photo on it. He takes one look at this flyer and says thats baby at my house. Reporter police had already been surveilling the house, finally going inside, and then a shocking discovery. I got a phone call at twosomething in the morning. I started crying, and my dad tried to calm me down. And i laid down on the kitchen floor. Thats all i remember. We did recover an infant, female child that we do believe at this time is margo. However, we are awaiting the results of dna testing to confirm that identity. Reporter outside, a grisly find. Heidis strangled body in the trunk of megans car. I still dont believe it. For some reason, im like, its still not, its processing, but its not processing. Cause she was a friend. I dont know what brings somebody to do this sort of thing. But its just the worst of the worst. Reporter megan charged with two counts of kidnapping and one count of tampering with evidence, but she hasnt been charged with murder at this point. Her defense team maintaining their innocence, writing that they are anxious to review the evidence collected thus far. I know you want justice, how do you feel knowing at this time that no ones been charged with her murder . I dont understand this at all. Police could be waiting for all the facts and evidence before they make a murder charge. Reporter do you believe megans responsible . I believe so. Or somebody talked her into it. Heidi is so strong. Theres no way megan could have took her down by herself. Im going to miss you forever. Reporter last month, family and friends grieving at a vigil for heidi. Im really going to miss her voice. Reporter shane laying his fiance to rest two days after christmas. I want her to be recognized for the person that she was the best mom in the entire i got to be the best dad ever. Reporter shane is determined to make sure heidis memory lives on. Shane, when margo grows up, what will you want her to know about her mother . Just that her mom would love her. She still does. Reporter for nightline, im Kaylee Hartung in austin, texas. Our thanks to kaylee. Up next, the paws that refreshes. Be careful down there. whistling nyquifor your worst cold andrful relieflu symptoms, on sunday night and every night. Nyquil severe. 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