Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010) is similar to Just Mercy in exposing the relationship between racism and criminal justice in America. The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (2018), by Anthony Ray Hinton and Lara Love Hardin, tells Hinton's story of imprisonment on death row in Alabama and representation by Stevenson.
Tayari Jones's 2018 novel, An American Marriage, tells the story of an African American couple grappling with the effects of wrongful conviction and imprisonment. Stevenson references the novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), by Harper Lee, which is a classic novel that explores racism in...
