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2024: Other Books > (BWF) Just Mercy / Bryan Stevenson - 4****

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Book Concierge (tessabookconcierge) | 8458 comments Just Mercy A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Just Mercy – Bryan Stevenson
Digital audiobook read by the author
4****

Subtitle: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Adapted from the book jacket: Bryan Stevenson was a young attorney when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man sentenced to die for a murder he insisted he didn’t commit.

My reactions:
This was compelling and inspiring. The young Stevenson was definitely idealistic and perhaps naïve, but he was not about to take no for an answer. He was tenacious in finding evidence and insisting that the courts did the right thing for his clients. He championed the cases that no one wanted, and focused on the men, women and children (yes, children) disproportionately condemned to die because they were poor and Black. This is not to say that everything turned out well. Stevenson was up against a system that had been born of deeply entrenched fear and hatred and racism. Some went to their deaths before sufficient evidence could be brought before a sympathetic judge. And yet, for Stevenson “liberty and justice for all” are not just words but a call to action.

Stevenson narrates the audiobook himself. I cannot imagine that anyone else could have done a better job of it. His passion and compassion are evident.



LINK to my review


Robin P | 5874 comments Stevenson went on to spearhead a museum dedicated to the victims of lynching and the project he started to help people on Death Row is still ongoing.


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