Just Mercy
Subtitle: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Ebook
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780812994537
Copyright date: 2014
Description: 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. 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. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship—and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.

Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer’s coming of age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: Title Page; title: Epigraph; title: Introduction: Higher ground; title: Mockingbird players; title: Stand; title: Trials and tribulation; title: The old rugged cross; title: Of the coming of John; title: Surely doomed; title: Justice denied; title: All God's children; title: I'm here; title: Mitigation; title: I'll fly away; title: Mother, mother; title: Recovery; title: Cruel and unusual; title: Broken; title: The stonecatchers' song of sorrow; title: Epilogue