Bryan Stevenson

I write in the book about meeting one of my clients who was

14, living in a household where his mother had a boyfriend and when he would start drinking he'd get violent and one day he came home and he walked into the kitchen and punched the boy's mother and she just fell.

She didn't even say anything, he just punched her.

She ended up on the floor bleeding and unconscious.

Her son came running into the kitchen to try to help his mom, but she was non-responsive and that little boy thought his mom was dead.

She wasn't dead, but he thought she was dead.

After 10 minutes, he got up to go into the bedroom to call the police.

And then he remembered that this man kept a handgun in the dresser drawer.

And he goes over to the drawer.

He pulls it open.

He pulls out the gun.

He goes over to where the man is sleeping.

And he points the gun at the man's head.

And the man is snoring at this point.

And at some point, the man stops snoring and jumps.

And when the man jumps, the little boy jumps.

And when the little boy jumps, he pulls the trigger and shoots this man in the head, killing him instantly.

This child was very small for his age.

It was under five feet tall.

He weighed less than 100 pounds.