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Maurice Chammah

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Maurice Chammah is a staff writer at The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization that covers the U.S. criminal justice system. His first book, Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty (Crown, 2021), won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Book Award. A former Fulbright fellow in Cairo, he also plays the violin and is an assistant editor at American Short Fiction.

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Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty

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“To make your client human, you had to preserve the ways in which he did not make sense.”
― Maurice Chammah, Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty

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“She clung to an inspirational quote she heard once, spoken by a character in the sitcom Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce: “Nobody truly interesting is ever universally liked.”
― Maurice Chammah, Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty

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