Dispatches From Trump’s Killing Spree

Lisa Montgomery was executed early Wednesday as part of a wave of federal executions in the final months of the Trump administration.

Paul Abowd, Liliana Segura

January 12 2021, 12:38 p.m. ET

When Trump’s Department of Justice restarted federal executions for the first time in 17 years, The Intercept’s Liliana Segura began traveling to the site of the execution chamber in Terre Haute, Indiana. These are her dispatches from the death machine.

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