Words such as important and compelling may have lost their force through overuse, but reading this book will restore their meaning, along with one's hopes for humanity.’ Bryan Stevenson has labored long and hard, and with great skill and temperate passion, to set things right. Gloria Steinem ‘Our American criminal justice system has become an instrument of evil. Stevenson explains how deep-rooted racism is, while giving hope that it doesn’t have to exist.' Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow ‘This is so important. The stories told within these pages hold the potential to transform what we think we mean when we talk about justice.’ Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns ‘Bryan Stevenson is one of my personal heroes, perhaps the most inspiring and influential crusader for justice alive today, and Just Mercy is extraordinary. This is a book of great power and courage. Read more to death, has sought to redeem the country itself. Bryan Stevenson is a real-life, modern-day Atticus Finch who, through his work in redeeming innocent people condemned.

‘Bryan Stevenson is America's young Nelson Mandela - a brilliant lawyer fighting with courage and conviction to guarantee justice for all.’ĭesmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate ‘From the frontlines of social justice comes one of the most urgent voices of our era. At once an unforgettable account of an idealistic lawyer’s coming of age and a moving portrait of the lives of those he has defended, Just Mercy is an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of justice. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, startling racial inequality, and legal brinkmanship - and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever. His innate sense of justice made him a brilliant young lawyer, and one of his first defendants was Walter McMillian, a black man sentenced to die for the murder of a white woman - a crime he insisted he didn’t commit. Bryan Stevenson grew up poor in the racially segregated South. And Death Row is disproportionately black, too. For black men this figure rises to one in 3.

One in every 15 people born there today is expected to go to. The US has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. A #1 New York Times bestseller, this is a powerful, true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix America’s broken justice system, as seen in the HBO documentary True Justice. A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, ESQUIRE, AND TIME BOOK OF THE YEAR. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING MICHAEL B. Description for Just Mercy (Film Tie-In Edition): a story of justice and redemption Paperback.

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