He has challenged bias against the poor and minorities in the criminal justice system, especially children
He has helped achieve court decisions that prohibit sentencing children under 18 to death, or to life imprisonment without parole
Stevenson has assisted in cases that have saved dozens of prisoners from the death penalty, advocated for poor people, and developed community-based reform litigation aimed at improving the administration of criminal justice
He is working to establish The Memorial to Peace and Justice in Montgomery, which will document each of the nearly 4,000 lynchings of black people that took place in the twelve states of the South from 1877 to 1950
He believes that the history of lynchings has influenced the subsequent high rate of death sentences in the South, where it has been disproportionately applied to minorities
A related museum, From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, will offer interpretations to show the connection between the post-Civil War period of lynchings to the high rate of executions and incarceration of people of color in the United States
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Education
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Eastern University
Harvard Law School
Related celebs
Christy Stevenson, Howard Stevenson Jr, Alice Golden Stevenson, Howard Stevenson Sr.
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