Chicago Tribune Wins Pulitzer for Death Penalty Editorials
The 2003 Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism have been announced: Cornelia Grubman and the Chicago Tribune has won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing for this series of editorials against the death penalty.
Grumman credited her prize to the work of investigative reporters Steve Mills, Maurice Possley and Ken Armstrong, who spent years uncovering problems in the capital punishment system and worked to free some former death-row inmates. "They laid the groundwork for reform in Illinois, and I was just kind of making the argument,'' Grumman said. "I feel like my work has been a footnote to the book they wrote … just the last chapter calling for reform for all the problems they detailed," Grumman said. "My hat's off to them. They are my heroes."Mills, Possely and Armstrong are our heroes too.
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