The first time Bryan Stevenson, who founded the Equal Justice Initiative three decades ago, first met someone on death row, the two learned they have the exact same birthday..

Stevenson had gone to Georgia while still a Harvard Law School student in the early 1980s to aid lawyers who represented prisoners facing execution. His assignment that day was fairly simple: Tell an inmate that he wasn’t at risk of execution anytime in the next year. 

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