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The Man on Death Row Who Changed Me By Bryan Stevenson • Oct. 24, 2014
Bryan Stevenson is the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and the author of “Just Mercy,” from which this essay is adapted. email submissions for Lives to lives@nytimes.com. Because of the volume of email, the magazine cannot respond to every submission. Share comments on this essay at nytimes.com/magazine. A version of this article appears in print on Oct. 26, 2014, Page 74 of the Sunday Magazine with the headline: The High Road.