The Attorney Who Walked Into Death Row

In 1989, Bryan Stevenson drove his beat-up Honda Civic from Harvard Law School to rural Alabama, where Walter McMillian sat on death row for a murder he did not commit. Stevenson had every reason to stay in Boston — prestigious firms were calling, comfortable futures were waiting. Instead, he chose to enter the most hopeless corridor in the American justice system, where condemned men lived in six-by-eight cells and guards eyed him with suspicion.…