Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the. In Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, he builds his case against the flaws of America’s judicial system by clustering his observations around the case of Walter McMillian, a black man who first drew community ire by having an affair with a married white woman.

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The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship-and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit. But in 1989, driven by a change in the Supreme Court’s treatment of death penalty. Just mercy: a story of justice and redemption Superior Adult Nonfiction has 4 Superior Nonfiction Audiobooks has 2 Superior Adult Kits. Between the passage of Alabama’s new death penalty statute in 1975 and the end of 1988, there had been only three executions in Alabama. 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. Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson Study Guide Jump to: Summary Buy Now Read summaries of Bryan Stevensons Just Mercy. We just needed some timesomething, as it turned out, we wouldn’t get at all.

Just mercy a story of justice and redemption