2015.03.08 布莱恩-史蒂文森 律师

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Kirsty Young's guest this week is Bryan Stevenson.

An American lawyer, he is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a private, not-for-profit organisation working on death penalty cases, cases of children sentenced as adults, prison and sentencing reform, and issues of race and poverty.

His great grandparents were slaves and he himself went to a segregated school in southern Delaware. Although from a poor African American background he made it to Harvard Law School. Since then he has secured relief for over a hundred prisoners sentenced to death. He has argued in front of the Supreme Court six times and won landmark rulings about the sentencing of children for both homicide and non-homicide offences. His TED talk from March 2012 has been viewed over two million times.



克斯蒂-杨本周的嘉宾是布莱恩-史蒂文森。

他是一名美国律师，是 "平等正义倡议 "的创始人和执行董事。"平等正义倡议 "是一个私营的非营利组织，致力于处理死刑案件、被判处为成年人的儿童案件、监狱和判刑改革以及种族和贫困问题。

他的曾祖父母是奴隶，他本人在特拉华州南部的一所隔离学校上学。虽然来自贫穷的非裔美国人背景，但他还是进入了哈佛大学法学院。从那时起，他已经为一百多个被判处死刑的囚犯争取到了救济。他曾六次在最高法院前辩论，并赢得了对儿童杀人罪和非杀人罪判刑的里程碑式的裁决。他在2012年3月的TED演讲已经被浏览了200多万次。