Bryan Stevenson, director of the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, speaks to Stephen Bright's Yale course on Capital Punishment: Race, Poverty, and Disadvantage. He responds to a Supreme Court decision that rejected a challenge to racial disparities in death penalty sentencing, walking through what the ruling means for defendants and for the broader pattern of race discrimination running through the criminal justice system. Drawing on his work representing death row inmates in Alabama, Stevenson connects the Court's reasoning to the practical realities of who gets prosecuted, convicted, and executed. The talk is direct legal analysis grounded in casework rather than abstract theory, aimed at students studying how poverty and race intersect with capital punishment law. It runs twenty three minutes as a guest session within the larger course.