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.

Attendance Options:

• Zoom (you'll receive the link after you register)

• Live stream on PADP’s Facebook page

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