Without MercyWithout Mercy

Thousands of people in the US and across the EU continue to face inequality, police violence and discrimination based on race, color or ethnic origin. 13-year-old children who spend years in solitary confinement, arbitrary arrests and racial prejudice by the police and judiciary, or people with mental illnesses who have been vegetating in prison for decades: these stories are everyday life in the USA. The charismatic lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who knows the ubiquitous racism well from his own experience, gives these harrowing cases from America's courtrooms and death row a voice. Bryan Stevenson grew up in the racially segregated south. His innate sense of justice made him a brilliant young lawyer, and one of his first defendants was Walter McMillian, a black man sentenced to death for the murder of a white woman - a crime he did not commit. This case changed Bryan's understanding of mercy and justice forever.