Just Mercy

Bryan Stevenson 2014

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
wrongful conviction race justice death penalty

Our Take

Stevenson defends death row inmates in Alabama and this book centres on Walter McMillian, an innocent Black man sentenced to die for a murder he did not commit. The legal system here is not broken — it is working exactly as designed, against the poor and the Black.

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