Just Mercy: A story of justice and redemption (Film Tie-In) – Stevenson Bryan (2020)

Now a major motion picture starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx and Brie Larson, this powerful true story explores the potential of mercy to redeem us and issues a clarion call to fix America’s broken justice system, as seen in the HBO documentary True Justice. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world: one in every 15 people born there today is expected to go to prison, a figure that rises to one in three for black men. Death Row is disproportionately black, too. Bryan Stevenson grew up poor in the racially segregated South. His innate sense of justice made him a brilliant young lawyer, and one of his first defendants was Walter McMillian, a black man sentenced to die for the murder of a white woman, a crime he insisted he did not commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, startling racial inequality and legal brinkmanship, transforming his understanding of mercy and justice forever. At once an unforgettable account of an idealistic lawyer’s coming of age and a moving portrait of the lives of those he has defended, Just Mercy is an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of justice.