Over the weekend, my ProPublica colleagues’ project on the broken system of presidential pardons ran in the Washington Post and on our own site. I had very little to do with my colleagues’ impressive work but I still got a byline for taking this photo of Chibueze Okorie, who was convicted of heroin possession but received a reduced sentence for cooperating with authorities.
That was two decades ago and since then, Okorie has been ministering at a Park Slope church. I took his photo in September for the current story and I also took a portrait for this 2009 story:
During both occasions, he was as happy and thankful a person I’ve ever met. The 2009 story focuses specifically on how his case became controversial for the presidential pardons office. This Sunday’s story takes a broader look at this little-discussed constitutional power.
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