The release date for the English version of 'Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption' by
Bryan Stevenson is Oct 2014. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
One of the most inspirational attorneys of our time shares an amazing factual tale about how kindness may be able to save us and makes a strong appeal to abolish mass imprisonment in the United States.
When Bryan Stevenson established the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit legal practice in Montgomery, Alabama, he was a young attorney whose mission was to represent the underprivileged, the imprisoned, and the unjustly convicted.
The narrative of EJI is told in Just Mercy, starting from its early years when it had a small staff and had to deal with the highest rates of capital punishment and execution in the country. It also covers the organization's successful campaign against the cruel practice of sending children to die in prison and its innovative projects that aim to confront Americans about their country's history of racial injustice.
Walter McMillian, a young Black man facing a death sentence for the unintentional murder of a young White lady, was among EJI's first clients. The case serves as an example of how the death penalty in America is a system that favors the wealthy and guilty over the defenseless and innocent. It is a direct descendent of lynching.