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.

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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WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 21: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel speaks alongside Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche during a news conference at the at the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice building on April 21, 2026 in Washington, DC. Blanche and Patel held the news conference to announce charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center in which they allege the organization funneled over $3 million dollars towards white supremacist and extremists groups.

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