num_pages: 336
description: An unforgettable true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us and a clarion call to end mass incarceration in America  from one of the most inspiring lawyers of our time.Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative a nonprofit law office in Montgomery Alabama dedicated to defending the poor the incarcerated and the wrongly condemned.Just Mercy tells the story of EJI from the early days with a small staff facing the nations highest death sentencing and execution rates through a successful campaign to challenge the cruel practice of sentencing children to die in prison to revolutionary projects designed to confront Americans with our history of racial injustice.One of EJIs first clients was Walter McMillian a young Black man who was sentenced to die for the murder of a young white woman that he didnt commit. The case exemplifies how the death penalty in America is a direct descendant of lynching  a system that treats the rich and guilty better than the poor and innocent.
language: English
title: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
publisher: One World