Bryan Stevenson

Bryan Stevenson is a literary fiction author best known as the executive director and founder of a human rights organization known as the “Equal Justice Initiative.” Since the organization was founded, it has won many legal challenges and has been involved in aiding children indicted as adults, challenging the abuse of the mentally ill, the imprisoned, exonerating innocent death row convicts, and eradicating prejudicial and extreme prison sentences. Stevenson is a brilliant lawyer who has won many cases at the US Supreme Court including a landmark ruling in 2012 that made it illegal to give life imprisonment without parole to anyone below the age of seventeen. In 2019, he argued and won a case to protect condemned men who had dementia. Bryan and his legal team have been responsible for multiple reliefs, reversals, and release from prison of more than a hundred prisoners that were on death row or had been wrongly convicted. He has also won relief for many others that had been unjustly sentenced or been wrongly convicted. He wrote his debut novel “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption” in 2014. The novel is set to be made into a film by the name “Just Mercy.”