A memoir by the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, built around his defense of Walter McMillian, an Alabama man wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death. Around that central case, Stevenson weaves the stories of children sentenced to die in prison, the poor, and the mentally ill caught in a system he shows to be shaped by race and poverty. The book became a bestseller and one of the most influential accounts of the American criminal justice system of its generation.
Author: Bryan Stevenson · Original publisher: Spiegel & Grau, 2014 (full title: *Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption*)
