Just Mercy
A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
5/5
Spiegel & Grau 368 pages August 18, 2015
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was Walter McMillian, a young man condemned to die for a notorious murder he didn't commit.
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Stevenson is one of the most important lawyers of his generation, and this is his case for why the American criminal justice system is broken — not theoretically, but in the specific lives of the people he has represented. The Walter McMillian case is the spine of the book; the side cases give the breadth. This is a hard read by design. Stevenson does not let the reader off the hook. But the writing is clear, the structure is patient, and the argument — that "the opposite of poverty is justice" — lands without needing to shout. Five worms. Required reading for anyone who thinks about how laws actually work on real people.
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