Speaking at Pitt -- anti-death penalty attorney

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    OUTSTANDING ALABAMA ANTI-DEATH PENALTY ATTORNEY, BRYAN STEVENSON,

 

                TO SPEAK AT PITT LAW SCHOOL THIS THURSDAY AT NOON

 

Nationally prominent anti-death penalty advocate Bryan Stevenson will be speaking at Pitt Law School on Thursday, March 27th at 12 noon in the Moot Court Room. Stevenson will present the law school's Lawyering for Social Change lecture. His talk on racism and the death penalty is entitled Race, Death and Psychic Harm: The Continuing History of No Truth and No Reconciliation.

 

Stevenson is an inspiring speaker and is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Alabama , a non-profit organization that defends the rights of the poor and people of color. He and his colleagues have successfully reduced or overturned the death sentences in over 65 cases in Alabama .  His work has earned him numerous awards, including the Public Interest Lawyer of the Year, the ACLU National Medal of Liberty and the McArthur Foundation "genius" award.  He is one of the nation's most powerful speakers against the death penalty and racism in the criminal justice system.