Palm Beach Public Defender Carey Haughwout, presented her office's annual "Gideon Award" last month to Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, based in Montgomery, Alabama.

PALM BEACH PUBLIC Defender Carey Haughwout, left, presented her office's annual "Gideon Award" last month to Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, based in Montgomery, Alabama. Stevenson and his staff at EJI have successfully fought to overturn convictions in dozens of capital murder cases and death sentences where poor people have been unconstitutionally convicted or...