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.