Stephen Bright

Stephen Bright is director of the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta and teaches courses on the death penalty and criminal law at the Yale and Emory law schools. He has represented defendants in capital cases at trial, on appeals, and in post-conviction proceedings since 1979. He argued Amadeo v. Zant before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1988, in which the death penalty was set aside because of racial discrimination.

Programs

Date Recorded Program Title Handle
2002: 03/02 Capital Punishment, Capital Crime? BRIS001