Doyen of death row lawyers releases The Fear of Too Much Justice, a book named for a famous supreme court dissent When Stephen Bright takes on a new death row client, he makes them a promise. He pledges to stick with them all the way. He means it. Five times now he has gone with a condemned man into the death chamber. In 1985, he had to do it twice in a single month. The first was Joseph Carl Shaw, a former military policeman in South Carolina. Shaw was schizophrenic and had been in the throes o...
'Dark side of the human spirit': Stephen Bright's death penalty fight
The Guardian - 18 Jun 2023 09:00
Doyen of death row lawyers releases The Fear of Too Much Justice, a book named for a famous supreme court dissent When Stephen Bright takes on a new death row client, he makes them a promise. He pledges to stick with them all the way. He means it. Five times now he has gone with a condemned man into the death chamber. In 1985, he had to do it twice in a single month. The first was Joseph Carl Shaw, a former military policeman in South Carolina. Shaw was schizophrenic and had been in the throes o...
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