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Maurice Chammah

Staff writer, The Marshall Project

Maurice Chammah is a staff writer for The Marshall Project. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. He was a finalist for a 2014 Livingston Award for a story on the decline of the death penalty, and a 2011-2012 Fulbright fellow in Egypt.

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Law and Order

Was Duane Buck sentenced to death "because he is black"?

By Maurice Chammah, April 25, 2016

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon consider whether to hear the Texas case of Duane Buck, who was sentenced to die in 1997 for killing two people. His small army of advocates don’t dispute his guilt but argue he is facing the harshest possible punishment primarily "because he is black."