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Summary
Bryan Stevenson's 2014 memoir recounts his work as a public-interest lawyer fighting for the wrongly condemned, centred on the case of Walter McMillian, a black man wrongfully sentenced to death in Alabama for a murder he did not commit. The book spent over 230 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and the NAACP Image Award, and was adapted into a 2019 feature film starring Michael B. Jordan.