Monographie
Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption / Bryan Stevenson
Titre(s)
- Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption / Bryan Stevenson
Auteur(s)
Publication
- London : Scribe, 2020
Description matérielle
- 351 p.
ISBN
- 9781912854790
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
- Notes bibliogr. Index
Résumé ou extrait
- A #1 New York Times bestseller, this is a powerful, true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix America’s broken justice system, as seen in the HBO documentary True Justice. The US has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. One in every 15 people born there today is expected to go to prison. For black men this figure rises to one in 3. And 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 didn’t commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, startling racial inequality, and legal brinkmanship — and transformed 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.
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- Avocats politiques -- États-Unis -- 1970-....
- Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice pénale -- États-Unis -- 1970-....
- Prisons -- États-Unis -- 1990-2020
- Lawyers -- United States -- Biography
- Social reformers -- United States -- Biography
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States
- Legal assistance to the poor -- United States
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States
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