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A powerful bold true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us and a clarion call to fix america s broken system of justice from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.

Book cover just mercy. Just mercy will make you upset and it will make you hopeful ted conover the new york times book review inspiring. The prison population has increased from 300 000 in the early 1970s to more than two million now. Stevenson is not only a great lawyer he s also a gifted writer and storyteller.

A work of style substance and clarity. A story of justice and redemption revolves around the case of an innocent man walter mcmillian a black man who had a white girl friend in monroe county alabama framed by the sheriff the district attorney and convicted by a jury for the murder of a clerk in a dry cleaner s shop. The book alternates chapters between focusing on stevenson s efforts to overturn the wrongful conviction of walter mcmillian and his efforts on other cases.

Stevenson documents his legal struggles to fight for the people on death row in the usa most of them poor and majority african ame ricans. A story of justice and redemption is a memoir by bryan stevenson that documents his career as a lawyer for the poor. A story of justice and redemption hardcover.

Description of just mercy pdf. Named one of the best books of the year by the new york times. The us has the highest rate of incarceration in the world.

Stevenson is not only a great lawyer he s also a gifted writer and storyteller the washington post. A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time. 0812994523 9780812994520 just mercy.

The book has a young adult adaptation that was. The book was published by spiegel grau on oct. Just mercy is a testimony to the power of life dedicated to serve the poor and dispossessed and must be therefore read from cover to cover.