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BRYAN STEVENSON:
 We are haunted in America
 by our history
 of racial inequality.
 I think that our history
 of lynching...
 casts a shadow
 over the modern death penalty.
REPORTER: The Supreme Court
 was urged, today,
to strike down the death penalty
because it is applied unequally
 to black and white.
STEVENSON:
The court said a certain amount
 of bias is inevitable.
MAN:
 The injustices in these cases
 literally jump out at you
 when you look at 'em.
So that, really, their trial
is just a legal lynching.
STEVENSON:
 So we set up this project
 to provide legal services
to poor people,
incarcerated people.
Bryan is the work.
There's no way to separate him.
MAN 2: When Bryan started
 in Montgomery,
 they were getting
 a lot of bomb threats.
I feel protective of him
because people don't like
what he has to say
or things that he's done.
STEVENSON:
 Tonight, we are taking
 this broken history,
this inequality and injustice,
and we're trying to do something
 with it.
 My clients have been broken
 by trauma,
 broken by bias
 and discrimination.
MAN 3:
 We are gonna be able to get
 some people over
 to safe passage,
 but there are gonna be
 other people
 that that's not gonna happen.
STEVENSON:
 I think it's important
 that we understand
 all the ugly details.
'Cause those are the things
that actually give rise
to what might allow us
to one day,
claim something
really beautiful.
