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Maurice Chammah

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The Case That Made Texas the Death Penalty Capital

In an excerpt from his new book, ‘Let the Lord Sort Them,’ Maurice Chammah explains where a 1970s legal team fighting the death penalty went wrong.

by Maurice Chammah via The Marshall Project on January 26, 2021
The Short, Fraught History of the ‘Thin Blue Line’ American Flag

The controversial version of the U.S. flag has been hailed as a sign of police solidarity and criticized as a symbol of white supremacy.

by Maurice Chammah, Cary Aspinwall via The Marshall Project on June 8, 2020
A Peek at the Golden Age of Prison Radio

"Texas Jailhouse Music" explores a time when Texas prisons promoted rehabilitation through a wildly successful radio show.

by Maurice Chammah via The Marshall Project on May 16, 2016
Prison Plantations

One man’s archive of a vanished culture.

by Maurice Chammah via The Marshall Project on May 1, 2015

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A noose hanging in front of the Capitol.

Why America Loves the Death Penalty

A new book frames this country’s tendency toward state-sanctioned murder as a unique cultural inheritance.

by Josephine Livingstone via The New Republic on January 11, 2021

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