Suzerain Capital Defense is committed to providing fervent defense to indigent individuals facing the death penalty, to alleviating the suffering of those persons and their loved ones during the legal process, and to challenging the stigmatic narrative associated with defendants the government seeks to execute.

Suzerain fills a seldom-discussed gap in death penalty cases: The government’s abject failure to fully fund a competent defense for those who cannot afford it. 

Though our nation’s promise of “equal justice under law” guarantees a lawyer to those accused of crimes, the sad reality is that many individuals facing the death penalty are woefully underrepresented and, in some cases, not represented at all.