Paxson Haws

Paxson Haws is a multimedia photojournalist who focuses her work in sports photography and investigative true crime multimedia projects. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a Bachelors of Arts in Journalism, where she worked as an editor at the student newspaper. Paxson has won several journalism awards including two Top 20 finishes in the Hearst Journalism Awards, several awards from Columbia Scholastic Press Association as well as the Society of Professional Journalism.

This thesis project details the lives and crimes of the first and most recent female federally executed – Mary Surratt and Lisa Montgomery. It explores the challenges of death row cases and crimes to stimulate conversation and evaluations over the justifiability of capital punishment.

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