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Stephen B. Bright
Stephen Bright founded the Southern Center for Human Rights, a non-governmental organization that provides legal representation to people facing the death penalty and to prisoners in cases involving claims of cruel and unusual conditions of confinement. He is a nationally recognized expert on the death penalty and prisoner's rights generally and has testified before committees of both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. He was director of the Center from 1982-2005 and is currently its President and Senior Counsel. Before that, he was a legal services attorney and public defender.
Stephen Bright is a visiting lecturer at both Yale and Harvard Law Schools. His articles have appeared in scholarly publications, magazines, and newspapers. His work and that of the Center have been featured in two books, Proximity to Death by William McFeely (Norton 1999) and Finding Life on Death Row by Kayta Lezin (Northeastern University Press 1999). He received the American Bar Association's Thurgood Marshall Award in 1998.
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