Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.
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.
Trigger & Content Warnings:
- Racism & racial slurs
- Ableism & ableist slurs (r slur)
- Classism
- Conversion therapy
- Graphic domestic & parental abuse
- Slavery and forced labour
- Graphic rape & prison rape
- Paedophilia & child sexual assault
- Incest
- Alcoholism & substance addiction
- PTSD
- Depression
- Suicide & self-harm
- Miscarriage & infertility themes
- Blood & gore depiction
- Graphic physical injuries
- Starvation
- Nonconsensual psychiatric hospitalisation
- Death of a parent
- Death of a sibling
- Death of an infant
- Police brutality & violence
- Murder & executions, including the execution of a child
- Death in police custody and in prison
- Graphic animal abuse
- Homelessness
- Poverty themes
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