The Death Penalty Information Center hon­ored jour­nal­ists and pro­duc­ers from the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times Magazine, Frontline, Sound Portraits Productions, and inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ist Alan Berlow dur­ing its 8th Annual Thurgood Marshall Journalism Awards at the National Press Club on Monday, July 26. The awards hon­or those jour­nal­ists who have made an excep­tion­al con­tri­bu­tion to the under­stand­ing of prob­lems asso­ci­at­ed with cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment. Award-win­ning human rights attor­ney Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Alabama, gave the program’s keynote address at the awards lun­cheon. Stevenson is one of the nation’s top pub­lic inter­est lawyers, and in 1995 he was award­ed the pres­ti­gious MacArthur Fellowship Award. Read the press release. See also, Thurgood Marshall Journalism Awards.

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