The Spring 2018 Common Reading Selection: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
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 machinations, and legal brinksmanship—and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.
Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer’s coming of age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of justice.
Description from BryanStevenson.com/the-book/.
This Dickinson community discussion of Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson took place on Monday, January 22, 2018 at 4:30 p.m. in the Waidner-Spahr Library.
Book Reviews & Interviews with Bryan Stevenson
More by Bryan Stevenson
- Crime, Punishment, and Executions in the Twenty-First CenturyBryan Stevenson; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 147, No. 1 (Mar., 2003), pp. 24-29.
- Politics and the Death Penalty: What Influences our Understanding of the Issue and its ImpactNorman Redlich, James E. Coleman Jr., Ernest Preate Jr., Bryan Stevenson, Nat Hentoff, Susan John, James Exum and Esther Lardent; Human Rights,
Vol. 21, No. 1 (Winter 1994), pp. 24-27, 29-30. - Illegal Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection: A Continuing LegacyBryan Stevenson; Human Rights,
Vol. 37, No. 4, Have We Overcome the Obstacles to Racial Equality? (Fall 2010), p. 5.
Equal Justice Initiative
- Equal Justice InitiativeBryan Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI). The organization is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.
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