‘True Justice’ explores lawyer who defends death row inmates
By RUSSELL CONTRERAS, Associated Press
Published: June 28, 2019, 6:05am
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson rarely slows down, friends and family say. It seems he’s always looking over details on death penalty cases from his Montgomery, Ala.-based Equal Justice Initiative. If he’s not speaking on the criminalization of black men, Stevenson is researching another historical site connected to an episode of racial violence.
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