Bryan Stevenson's 'Just Mercy'

Bryan Stevenson is a lawyer and the author of the book “Just Mercy.” The main story is about him defending an African American named Walter McMillan, from a small town named ‘Monroeville’ in Alabama. This man was falsely accused and convicted of killing a young white woman. The story of this book takes place in the 1980s and 1990s, which makes it so unbelievable. The writer compares the occurrence of his book to a very well-known American Classic “To Kill a Mockingbird” in which a black male was wrongfully accused of raping a white woman, who was defended by a white lawyer in the 1930’s.
Stevenson is an African American lawyer who grew up in Delaware and went to Harvard Law School. After studying philosophy, he realized that it wouldn’t pay the bills and he thought to himself that he needed to find a better profession and decided to go to law school, where he discovered his passion for helping death row candidates. Stevenson didn’t really know if he had picked the right field to be in and was unsure about his profession choice until he met Stephan
But even though this book was emotional and a bit challenging to read, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed his style of writing and telling stories. I would certainly recommend this book to anyone really, but specifically to lawyers, law students, paralegals, but I would really encourage people who are strongly for the continuation of the death penalty to read this book. I was one of those people and this book totally changed my point of view. I feel like this is an important reason the author wrote this book, he wants people to be able to see what’s going on on the inside and change their mind about their views on the justice system, especially on the topic of death row. Which he did accomplish in my opinion, not only did he do that he also made me broadened my understanding of the subject on injustice towards people in our