Let the Lord Sort Them with Maurice Chammah
May
19
7:00 PM19:00

Let the Lord Sort Them with Maurice Chammah

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Author Maurice Chammah will talk about his book, Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty. A Q&A session will follow.

Maurice Chammah is a staff writer for the Marshall Project and the author of Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty, which won the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Book Award. He was on a team that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. Chammah’s work has been published by The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The New York Times. A former Fulbright fellow, he helps organize The Insider Prize, a contest for incarcerated writers sponsored by the magazine American Short Fiction. A former Fulbright fellow in Cairo, he also plays the violin and is an assistant editor at American Short Fiction. He lives in Austin, Texas.

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Feel free to submit questions in advance to info@padp.org by 5 PM EDT on May 18, 2022

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Discipline & Punish: Reckoning with the Death Penalty and Mass Incarceration in Texas and Beyond
Oct
26
3:45 PM15:45

Discipline & Punish: Reckoning with the Death Penalty and Mass Incarceration in Texas and Beyond

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Austin-based journalist and Insider Prize organizer Maurice Chammah (Let the Lord Sort Them), criminologist and UT-Austin visiting scholar Jonathan Reuben Miller (Halfway Home), and Atlantic Center for Capital Representation director Mark Bookman (Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays) gather to discuss a carceral system designed for people within it to fail, primitive punitive practices, and the death penalty itself: a decades-old Supreme Court ruling that once deemed it unconstitutional; the practice's resulting resurgence, especially in Texas; and its future.

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The Death Penalty: Not In My Name
Oct
11
4:30 PM16:30

The Death Penalty: Not In My Name

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PADP and Gold Award Girl Scout candidate, Rebecca Diaz have organized a discussion between Ray Krone, a death-row exoneree and Akin Akin Adepoju, lawyer and professor of law. The Atlantic Center is cohosting this virtual event along with Amnesty International USA, NAACP York, and Witness to Innocence.

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