“On Obama's 2019 year-end list. Stevenson, a lawyer who founded the Equal Justice Initiative, uses Walter McMillian's wrongful death-row conviction as the spine of a broader argument about the failures of the American criminal legal system. Obama called it a book that should be required reading.”
“Stevenson's account of his work as a death-row defense attorney in Alabama is a book Obama has recommended in the context of criminal justice reform. Where her own memoir is about expanding possibility, Just Mercy is about what happens when the system actively contracts it — and what one person can do anyway.”
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