Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, written by the brilliant Bryan Stevenson is a book that focuses on the controversial topic of the death penalty and racial injustice while weaving in themes of Freedom, Justice, Forgiveness and most importantly Mercy. Bryan Stevenson is an attorney that fights for the freedom of wrongdoing in the American justice system by taking on cases such as wrongly convicted, youth convictions and racial injustices. With Stevenson being an expert in the field, he is very well written with moving and addicting his audience to read his story of the hardships he has faced within the legal system, all while tying in lightheartedness being something he has throughout the book. Just Mercy opens up to Bryan Stevenson,
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The Old Rugged Cross. In Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (p. 89).
Stevenson also included struggles he was facing while representing the people without a voice. I think it was important to include the incident he ran in with the police while sitting in his car in his neighborhood along with getting strip searched while visiting an inmate (which is not usual protocol for legal counsel) where the officer informed Stevenson the truck outside that was covered in confederate propaganda was his. It is important to show that even an educated African American man during this time was also being treated significantly differently from his caucasian counterparts. The few things I felt that Stevenson could have done slightly better was potentially explain the outcome of the smaller cases he talked about. I would have definitely liked to know the outcome of the few cases he didn’t inform us of the turn out. The other main weakness that I personally had difficulty with was how the book was laid out. It seemed to jump around quite a bit which was a little confusing in the beginning of the book and took a few chapters to fully get a grip that the minor cases did not correlate with Walters. I would have also liked to known just a little bit more detail of the writer's personal life just to give insight of what he was going through at home while all of this was unfolding. I also think the ending was slightly rushed and wrapped up semi
The Old Rugged Cross. In Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (p. 89).
Stevenson also included struggles he was facing while representing the people without a voice. I think it was important to include the incident he ran in with the police while sitting in his car in his neighborhood along with getting strip searched while visiting an inmate (which is not usual protocol for legal counsel) where the officer informed Stevenson the truck outside that was covered in confederate propaganda was his. It is important to show that even an educated African American man during this time was also being treated significantly differently from his caucasian counterparts. The few things I felt that Stevenson could have done slightly better was potentially explain the outcome of the smaller cases he talked about. I would have definitely liked to know the outcome of the few cases he didn’t inform us of the turn out. The other main weakness that I personally had difficulty with was how the book was laid out. It seemed to jump around quite a bit which was a little confusing in the beginning of the book and took a few chapters to fully get a grip that the minor cases did not correlate with Walters. I would have also liked to known just a little bit more detail of the writer's personal life just to give insight of what he was going through at home while all of this was unfolding. I also think the ending was slightly rushed and wrapped up semi