Despite Backlash for Working With Trump, Activists Say Prison Reform Can’t Wait
As Trump’s abuse of the pardon power grabs headlines, formerly incarcerated activists continue the long fight for federal criminal justice reform.
Liliana Segura
Liliana Segura is an award-winning investigative journalist covering the U.S. criminal justice system, with a longtime focus on harsh sentencing, the death penalty, and wrongful convictions. She was previously an associate editor at the Nation Magazine, where she edited a number of award-winning stories and earned a 2014 Media for a Just Society Award for her writing on prison profiteering. While at The Intercept, Segura has received the Texas Gavel Award in 2016 and the 2017 Innocence Network Journalism Award for her investigations into convictions in Arizona and Ohio. In 2019 she was honored in the Abolitionist category of the Frederick Douglass 200, a recognition given by the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives and the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University.
Segura has appeared on NPR, MSNBC, CNN International, Democracy Now!, and numerous other outlets. Her speaking engagements have included public interviews with authors such as Michelle Alexander and Bryan Stevenson. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post and Colorlines, and has been reprinted in outlets ranging from prison magazines to the anthologies "The Best American Legal Writing" and "Against Equality: Prisons Will Not Protect You.” She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Segura has appeared on NPR, MSNBC, CNN International, Democracy Now!, and numerous other outlets. Her speaking engagements have included public interviews with authors such as Michelle Alexander and Bryan Stevenson. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post and Colorlines, and has been reprinted in outlets ranging from prison magazines to the anthologies "The Best American Legal Writing" and "Against Equality: Prisons Will Not Protect You.” She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
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After Decades on Death Row, William Montgomery Was Granted a Reprieve. Yet His Dubious Conviction Still Stands.
Montgomery won’t be executed on April 11. Yet undisclosed evidence, an unreliable co-defendant and unanswered questions still raise concerns about his case.
Another Failed Execution: the Torture of Doyle Lee Hamm
Just months after Ohio failed to kill 69-year-old Alva Campbell, Alabama tried for two and a half hours to execute Hamm, a man with terminal cancer.
Retired Missouri Judge Who Sentenced Juvenile to 241 Years: “I Hope He Gets Out”
The judge who sentenced Bobby Bostic to the practical equivalent of life without parole for armed robbery spoke publicly for the first time about his case.
Death and Dereliction
Arizona Prosecutors Double Down on Murder Theory as the Evidence Crumbles Around Them
Medical experts testified that Rachel Gray’s fatal injury could not possibly have occurred within the window presented at trial.
Can the Supreme Court Continue to Live with Our Arbitrary and Capricious Death Penalty?
A petition before the Supreme Court argues for overturning Arizona’s death penalty law — and abolishing capital punishment altogether.
Cruel and Unusual: A Second Failed Execution in Ohio
The more Ohio has tinkered with its lethal injection protocol, the more executions have been disastrously botched.
Arkansas Justice: Racism, Torture, and a Botched Execution
Six months after the horrifying execution of Kenneth Williams, Arkansas refuses to learn from its mistakes.
Death and Dereliction
Twenty-Two Years After Arizona Sent Barry Jones to Death Row, the State’s Case Has Fallen Apart
A 4-year-old girl was killed in Tucson. Before the medical examiner had even determined a cause of death, Barry Jones became the sole suspect.
Memphis Wants to Remove a Statue Honoring First Grand Wizard of the KKK
Memphis, a majority black city, can't take down a statue honoring Nathan Bedford Forrest because state law blocks the removal of Confederate monuments.