Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Dayton Literary Peace Prize – Nonfiction | 2015 | Winner |
About This Book
Bryan Stevenson, a lawyer and the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, recounts his decades of fighting for the condemned and the incarcerated in Alabama's broken justice system, centred on the case of Walter McMillian, an innocent man on death row. A memoir that is simultaneously a devastating critique of capital punishment, racial injustice, and mass incarceration in America. Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction.
About the Author
Bryan Stevenson is an American lawyer, social justice activist, and author. Born in Milton, Delaware, in 1959, he studied at Eastern University and Harvard Law School and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a nonprofit organisation based in Montgomery, Alabama, that provides legal representation to people on death row and challenges racial injustice in the American criminal justice system. Read more →
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