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As part of an internship toward his Harvard law degree, Stevenson visited death row inmates. He was deeply affected by how often poor minorities received inadequate legal representation. As a young lawyer, Stevenson founded the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in Montgomery, AL, an organization dedicated to providing quality lawyers to those wronged by the criminal justice system. One of his first clients was Walter McMillan, a young black man on death row for a murd...Log In or Sign Up to Read More