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Stevenson, Bryan.
Just mercy.
Just Mercy :
a Story of Justice and Redemption /
Bryan Stevenson.
2020.
New York :
Spiegel & Grau,
2019.
©2014.
Postscript:
©2019.
xiv, 351 pages ;
21 cm.
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"Now a major motion picture"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-340) and index.
Introduction: Higher ground -- Mockingbird players -- Stand -- Trials and tribulation -- The old rugged cross -- Of the coming of John -- Surely doomed -- Justice denied -- All God's children -- I'm here -- Mitigation -- I'll fly away -- Mother, mother -- Recovery -- Cruel and unusual -- Broken -- The stonecatchers' song of sorrow -- Epilogue.
The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice.
20200420.
Stevenson, Bryan.
Equal Justice Initiative.
Social reformers
Biography.
Lawyers
Biography.
Criminal justice, Administration of
United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
United States.
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