Maurice Chammah

Chammah is a staff writer at The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news outlet that covers the criminal justice system. His first book, “Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty” will be published in January 2021. He won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Book Award in 2019. Chammah’s stories have been published by The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Esquire and Mother Jones.