Review: 'Just Mercy' shines brightest when painful truths are exposed
by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Dec 24, 2019
3 minutes
Bryan Stevenson, an attorney whose exceptional work is dramatized in "Just Mercy," does not take the easy way out in his professional life, and this film tribute to him and what he's accomplished also chooses a challenging path.
As the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, Stevenson has dedicated the past 30 years to, among other things, providing legal services to death row inmates and has saved more than 125 unjustly sentenced people from execution in the
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