“The Execution of Wanda Jean,” an HBO documentary directed by Liz Garbus of Moxie Firecracker Films, and a series of news articles by the staff of the York Daily Record, including extensive coverage of the release of Pennsylvania native Ray Krone from Arizona’s death row, will receive honors during the Death Penalty Information Center’s (DPIC) Seventh Annual Thurgood Marshall Journalism Awards at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The program will also feature keynote remarks from renowned author Scott Turow, whose award-winning books have sold millions of copies around the world. This year’s Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award recipients will be introduced by Ray Krone, the nation’s 100th death row exoneree, and Barbara Bradley Hagerty, Justice Department news correspondent for National Public Radio.
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