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Disputed justice
Walter McMillian was sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit. Bryan Stevenson and his colleagues challenged the prosecution’s evidence and helped secure his release. Just Mercy follows that case within Stevenson’s wider work defending people facing wrongful convictions and extreme punishment.
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Bryan Stevenson · Porchlight Book Company
An authorized excerpt from Just Mercy introduces Stevenson’s account of Walter McMillian. Read the excerpt at the publisher’s page.
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Bryan Stevenson
Stevenson’s memoir includes McMillian’s case and other clients. The publisher confirms its adaptation into the feature film.
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Exoneration · Equal Justice Initiative
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals overturned the conviction, and prosecutors agreed to dismissal. EJI documents the evidence and release; the outcome is an individual exoneration, not a newly enacted law.
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