Justitia, the goddess of justice

Is Justice Reserved for the Rich?

The Leonard Lopate Show | Feb 13, 2015

This is a rebroadcast of a conversation from October 30, 2014.

Bryan Stevenson tells us about founding the Equal Justice Initiative, dedicated to defending the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children in our criminal justice system. He talks about how one of his first cases—that of a young man who was sentenced to death for a murder he swore he didn’t commit—changed the way Stevenson thought of mercy and justice forever. His book Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption is about his coming of age as a young lawyer, about the lives of those he has defended, and an argument for compassion in the pursuit of justice.

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