Clive Stafford Smith

is the founder of Reprieve and has spent 25 years working on behalf of defendants facing the death penalty in the USA.

After graduating from Columbia law school in New York, he spent nine years as a lawyer with the Southern Center for Human Rights, working on death penalty cases and other civil rights issues. In 1993 he moved to New Orleans and launched the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center, a non-profit law office specialising in the defence of death penalty cases for impoverished defendants.

In 1999 Clive founded Reprieve and, the following year, he was awarded an OBE for “humanitarian services”. He moved back to the UK in 2004 where he is focusing on achieving due process for the detainees being held by the US in Guantánamo Bay, as well as continuing his work on death penalty cases. He was made a Rowntree Visionary and Echoing Green Fellow in 2005 and was previously a Soros Senior Fellow. As legal director, Clive is responsible for Reprieve’s casework programme

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