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Englishman defends death-row clients in the American South
British lawyer Clive Stafford-Smith has spent two decades fighting death sentences in Georgia Louisiana and Mississippi. He runs the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center with his wife Emily Bolton and has helped spare many clients from execution through pleas and appeals. He argues the system hazily mixes politics and prejudice while maintaining a focused practice on trials rather than appeals.
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Cambridge University
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Southern Center For Human Rights
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