Summary Of Just Mercy

Bryan Stevenson’s, biography and autobiography, Just Mercy, documents his life and his work as a lawyer representing those on death row and other minorities of the criminal justice system. Stevenson has worked as a lawyer since the 1980s; he is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative based in Montgomery, Alabama, and is a law professor at New York University Law School. Just Mercy exhibits the standpoint of seeking rightful justice in the criminal justice system for those who are disadvantaged. Stevenson’s stance provides awareness to the social factors that affect injustice, encouraging critical thinking about our culture, punishment, and our right to sentence those to death. Stevenson describes how he has always wanted to help those who were economically disadvantaged, wanting to change public policy to change the things he had seen growing up as a black person …show more content…
He provides significant data with a lengthy reference sheet for the first argument, the second on is a bit more difficult. There is difficulty is critiquing a stance involving morality, Stevenson assumingly believes the same thing, but his writing style encouraged critical thinking and encouraged research about the topic. Outlined throughout the chapters, it is shown how our cultural opinion surrounding the death penalty has changed in recent decades, and Stevenson’s work in fighting against it and other terminal sentences. Stevenson said what he needed to say, and he said it very well. His writing style was engaging, and made the reader feel connected to his emotions within the story telling segments. Just Mercy was written to wide range of audiences, one does not need initial interest in criminal justice or politics to feel engaged while reading or to critically thinking about the topics