Book Review: Just Mercy By Bryan Stevenson

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson.

Bryan Stevenson, the author, is the co-founder and the Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a human rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama. He begins the book by giving a brief backstory of how he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, where he works to get wrongly convicted people off of death row. The one overarching story that we follow throughout the book is the case of Walter McMillian, a black man who was sentenced to die for a murder he didn’t commit. As Stevenson took on the case he discovered evidence that Walter was in fact innocent, but it took six years for Bryan to overturn Walters conviction. Throughout the book Stevenson alternates the chapters about Walter with some of his previous cases, highlighting the mistreatment of vulnerable people and mass incarceration.