Obit: Defense Lawyer Billy Sothern, 45

The SPLC in Montgomery

 The N.Y. Times reports the death of a lawyer with connections to Montgomery's Equal Justice Initiative:

"...(he) found a mentor in Bryan Stevenson, a professor at N.Y.U. and the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative. Mr. Sothern spent a summer working at the organization’s headquarters in Montgomery, Ala., and another summer working for a capital-defense nonprofit in New Orleans."

"...he died on Sept. 30 at his home in Great Barrington, Mass., where he and his family had moved during the pandemic. He was 45."

"His wife, Nikki Page Sothern, said he had been fighting Covid, thyroid cancer and major depressive disorder, and that he died by suicide."

FULL N.Y. Times story is HERE.