...wrote that the Johnson case is indefinitely continued until he receives instruction from the Georgia Supreme Court.Stephen Bright, a law professor at Yale University and one of the forces behind the creation of the Georgia Capital Defender Office...

...2005 and today's work by capital defenders is "a little greater than the difference between night and day," said Stephen Bright, a senior counsel for the Southern Center for Human Rights.Critics have called the long delays excuses with the...

...district attorneys and defendants are having to put up with and encounter with regard to the Capital Defender Office."Stephen Bright, the senior counsel for the Southern Center for Human Rights, defended the office before Craig last year."Judge...

...two attorneys for capital murder defendant Tony O. Grubbs but asserted that the defense team is still on track.Stephen Bright, the president and senior counsel for the Southern Center for Human Rights and a professor at Yale Law School, faced...

...It's about them trying to change things in midstream."But supporters of the rule change downplay the cost. Stephen Bright of the Southern Center for Human Rights said the proposal would fulfill the Constitution's promise of equal justice...

...for his defense, and he has had no attorneys to defend him for more than two years.Weis' appellate attorney, Stephen Bright, likened his client's situation to an amateur baseball team taking on a professional one."You can't have a...

...been used in its place since. The electric chair was last used in Georgia to execute David Cargill in June 1998. Stephen Bright, the director of the anti-death penalty Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, said the decision to eliminate...

...handled cases for 857 clients last year. "Things are so bad that something's going to have to be done," said Stephen Bright, the director of the Southern Center for Human Rights, which helps poor defendants in Georgia. During the campaign...

...feel intense pain. Wallace Fugate is scheduled to die by injection tonight for killing his wife, Pattie, in 1991. Stephen Bright, Mr. Fugate's attorney, said that prisoners are given a pain-numbing drug that lasts only three or four minutes...

...criminal laws or have been accused of sleeping during murder trials. "It's a complete patchwork hodgepodge," said Stephen Bright, whose Southern Poverty Law Center assists poor defendants in Georgia. "We're way behind everyone else." Leaders...