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Just Mercy is a work of nonfiction. Some names and identifying details have been changed. Copyright © 2014 by Bryan Stevenson Al ...

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument. —REINHOLD NIEBUHR ...

Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Epigraph Introduction: Higher Ground Chapter One: Mockingbird Players Chapter Two: Stand Cha ...

Introduction Higher Ground I wasn’t prepared to meet a condemned man. In 1983 , I was a twenty-three-year-old student at Harvard ...

by the end of my first year I’d grown disillusioned. At the time, Harvard Law School was a pretty intimidating place, especially ...

“I just hope you’re not expecting anything too fancy while you’re here,” he said. “Oh, no,” I assured him. “I’m grateful for the ...

walked inside the main building with its dark corridors and gated hallways, where metal bars barricaded every access point. The ...

“Oh, yes, sir. The lawyers at SPDC sent me down to tell you that they don’t have a lawyer yet.... I mean, we don’t have a lawyer ...

something that expressed my gratitude to him for being so patient with me. But I couldn’t think of anything to say. Henry looked ...

people in our judicial system, that maybe we judge some people unfairly. The more I reflected on the experience, the more I reco ...

It is about how easily we condemn people in this country and the injustice we create when we allow fear, anger, and distance to ...

that is defined by error, a system in which thousands of innocent people now suffer in prison. Finally, we spend lots of money. ...

incarcerated, and the condemned. We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can ...

Chapter One Mockingbird Players The temporary receptionist was an elegant African American woman wearing a dark, expensive busin ...

I struggled for an image of “Dixie Mafia” that would fit Walter McMillian. “ ‘Dixie Mafia’?” “Yes, and there’s no telling what e ...

“Sure, of course I understand. When I review the record I’ll have a better sense of what evidence they have, and we can talk abo ...

the back by his captors, dying ingloriously but not unlawfully. Walter McMillian, like Tom Robinson, grew up in one of several p ...

Americans with limited education were able to achieve through legitimate means. Still, he was pleasant, respectful, generous, an ...