Bryan Stevenson

Quick Facts

Full Name	Bryan Stevenson
Occupation	Lawyer
Date Of Birth	Nov 14, 1959(1959-11-14)
Age	65
Birthplace	Milton
Country	Canada
Birth City	Ontario
Horoscope	Scorpio

Bryan Stevenson Biography

Bryan Stevenson is one of the most popular and richest Lawyer who was born on November 14, 1959 in Milton, Ontario, Canada.

He initiated the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, which honors the names of each of more than 4,000 African Americans lynched in the 12 states of the South from 1877 to 1950. He argues that the history of slavery and lynchings has influenced the subsequent high rate of death sentences in the South, where it has been disproportionately applied to minorities. A related museum, The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, offers interpretations to show the connection between the post- Reconstruction period of lynchings to the high rate of executions and incarceration of people of color in the United States.

Born on November 14, 1959, Stevenson grew up in Milton, Delaware, a small rural town located in Southern Delaware. His father Howard Carlton Stevenson, Sr., had grown up in Milton, and his mother Alice Gertrude (Golden) Stevenson, was born and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her family had moved to the city from Virginia in the Great Migration of the early 20th century. Stevenson has two siblings: an older brother Howard, Jr. and a sister Christy. Both parents commuted to the northern part of the state for work: Howard, Sr. worked at a General Foods processing plant as a laboratory technician. His mother, Alice, was a bookkeeper at Dover Air Force Base and became an equal opportunity officer. She particularly emphasized the importance of education.

Bryan Stevenson Net Worth

Bryan Stevenson is one of the richest Lawyer from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bryan Stevenson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Stevenson acquired six acres of former public housing land in Montgomery for the development of a new project, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, to commemorate the nearly 4,000 persons who were lynched in the South from 1877 to 1950. Many lynchings were conducted openly in front of mobs and crowds in county courthouse squares. Stevenson argues this history of extrajudicial lynchings by white mobs is closely associated with the subsequent high rate of death sentences imposed in Alabama and other southern states, and to their disproportionate application to minority people. He further argues that this history influences the bias against minorities as expressed in disproportionately high mass incarceration rates for them across the country. The memorial opened in April 2018.

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Who is Bryan Stevenson Dating?

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Stevenson has been particularly concerned about overly harsh sentencing of persons convicted of crimes committed as children, under the age of 18. The US Supreme Court ruled in Roper v. Simmons (2005) that the death penalty was unconstitutional for persons convicted of crimes committed under the age of

18. Stevenson worked to have the court’s thinking about appropriate punishment broadened to related cases applying to children convicted under the age of 17.

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Sigit Ranked on the list of most popular Lawyer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Bryan Stevenson celebrates birthday on November 14 of every year.

EJI mounted a litigation campaign to gain review of cases in which convicted children were sentenced to life-without-parole, including in cases without homicide. In Miller v. Alabama (2012), the US Supreme Court ruled in a landmark decision that mandatory sentences of life-without-parole for children 17 and under were unconstitutional; their decision has affected statutes in 29 states. In 2016, the court ruled in Montgomery v. Louisiana that this decision had to be applied retroactively, potentially affecting the sentences of 2300 people nationwide who had been sentenced to life while still children.

Does Bryan Stevenson have a wife?

Personal life. Stevenson is a lifelong bachelor and has stated that his career is incompatible with married life. He has resided in Montgomery, Alabama since 1985.

Is Bryan Stevenson still a professor?

In 1998, Stevenson joined the clinical faculty at NYU Law School and is currently a professor of law there. He has also been visiting lecturer of law at Harvard, Yale, and University of Michigan Law Schools.

What did Bryan Stevenson study in Harvard?

Stevenson studied political science and philosophy and graduated in 1981. Stevenson moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts in the fall of 1981 to attend Harvard University, where he was accepted into a dual degree program in law and public policy with Harvard Law School and the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

What was Bryan Stevenson's message in his TED talk?

At TED2012, lawyer Bryan Stevenson made an impassioned case for confronting racial and economic injustice in the American justice system. And, he argued, confronting that means changing the way the system approaches child offenders. In his talk he says: “ I represent children.

What happened to Herbert Richardson?

Herbert Richardson was a Black Vietnam War veteran who fought for our country on the front lines until he was honorably discharged due to psychiatric illness that he developed from his service. He was executed in 1989 by the State of Alabama after being convicted of capital murder in 1978.