In this social landscape, lawyer and social justice activist Bryan Stevenson’s message is timely: The US justice system, through mechanisms like mass incarceration and extreme punishment, denies justice to society’s most vulnerable members. Over a half-century after the civil rights movement sought justice for African Americans, prominent movements such as Black Lives Matter continue fighting to expose and resist injustice. Read below for a brief overview of Just Mercy.
He provides a diagnosis of the root problems with the American conception of justice and his suggestions for repairing it.
In Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson discusses the 1989 case of Walter McMillian and his evidence of extreme punishments doled out more broadly by the justice system. What is Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson about? What are the main takeaways of the book?
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