Bryan Stevenson
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Just explain to him that he's not at risk of execution anytime in the next year.
We're worried he may not know that.
So, of course, I said yes.
I got in my car.
I started driving to Jackson, Georgia.
But then it hit me that I was just this law student.
I didn't know anything.
I'd never been to death row.
I'd never been.
I had not been in a maximum prison.
I'd done some work at a low-level prison in the Boston area, but first time in any kind of secure maximum prison.
And I just started to feel completely unprepared.
And I parked my car and I went into the prison.
The guards were not very nice.
They sent me to the back in this visitation room.
And I was so anxious that I tried to rehearse exactly what I was going to say.
And then they brought this condemned man into the room.
And I remember being struck by how burdened with chains he was.
He had handcuffs on his wrist.
He had a chain around his waist.