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    Summary and Analysis of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption: Based on the Book by Bryan Stevenson
    Summary and Analysis of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption: Based on the Book by Bryan Stevenson
    Summary and Analysis of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption: Based on the Book by Bryan Stevenson
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    Summary and Analysis of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption: Based on the Book by Bryan Stevenson

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    About Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson:
     
    Just Mercy is a heartbreaking—but not entirely hopeless—look inside the American criminal justice system. The guide on this journey to death row, judges’ chambers, and courthouses small and large is Bryan Stevenson, one of the country’s foremost criminal justice reformers and the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, the acclaimed legal aid organization based in Montgomery, Alabama.
     
    In Stevenson’s chronicle, the only thing standing between death or life imprisonment is an underpaid, overworked lawyer.
     
    The summary and analysis in this ebook are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMar 7, 2017
    ISBN9781504044769
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      Summary and Analysis of Just Mercy - Worth Books

      Contents

      Context

      Overview

      Summary

      Timeline

      Cast of Characters

      Direct Quotes and Analysis

      Trivia

      What’s That Word?

      Critical Response

      About Bryan Stevenson

      For Your Information

      Bibliography

      Copyright

      Context

      When Just Mercy was published in the fall of 2014, America’s first black president was nearing the midpoint of his second term. Despite President Barack Obama’s monumental achievement, the legacy of America’s painful racial past was far from resolved. In 2014—as in 2008, when Obama was elected to his first term—blacks convicted of capital offenses were significantly more likely to receive the death penalty than white Americans. The same was true for poor Americans without the means to hire a lawyer, who were more likely to wind up in prison to begin with.

      The Obama administration’s acknowledgment of race- and class-based disparities in the criminal justice system marked a new commitment to reforming the institution of mass incarceration, but government works slowly. Beginning around 2013, the emergence of new activist groups organized by young people, such as Black Lives Matter, reflected the growing sense of frustration with a spate of interactions between law enforcement and African Americans that ended in the use of deadly force. As a result, many Americans are now aware of the racial and class disparities that continue to bedevil the criminal justice system. In Just Mercy, veteran defense attorney and criminal justice reformer Bryan Stevenson chronicles just how far the country has come—and how much further it has to go.

      Overview

      Just Mercy documents the career of Bryan Stevenson, the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) and an indefatigable advocate for the accused. The book is framed around the pivotal case of Walter McMillian, a black Alabama man falsely accused of murdering an 18-year-old white woman. Despite remarkably flimsy evidence, he was convicted and sentenced to death. With the help of Stevenson and the EJI, McMillian was eventually exonerated and freed. Many of Stevenson’s other clients were not. Threaded through the narrative are stories about other prisoners Stevenson represented, young (often juvenile) and old, black and white, male and female. The people Stevenson works with have had incompetent or no representation, little outside support, and few resources—financial or otherwise. Many are mentally or physically disabled. Often, they can barely read. Most have suffered unimaginable trauma in childhood—and while in prison. And many are guilty of the crimes of which they were convicted.

      Stevenson’s mission is not to convince people to dismiss their crimes, or the consequences of their actions. Rather, his goal is for people to recognize the humanity and suffering

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