Obama's Clemency Problem – And Ours
The government has admitted the vast injustice of mandatory minimums. So why is clemency reserved for a select few?
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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Clemency Applicants Urge Obama to Act Before Trump Presidency Crushes Hope
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End the Death Penalty or Speed It Up – California Faces Opposing Ballot Initiatives
Victims’ relatives take opposing sides in California’s election fight over the death penalty.
Donald Trump’s Ugly Attack on the Central Park Five Reflects All-Too-Common Attitude
Trump’s insistence on the guilt of men who were exonerated is a form of denial that is prevalent in district attorneys’ offices around the country.
Former Prisoners Are Leading the Fight Against Mass Incarceration
Five hundred people convened in Oakland last weekend for the first national conference of the Formerly Incarcerated, Convicted People and Families Movement.
The Long Cruel Reach of Indonesia's Death Penalty
As Indonesia continues to execute groups of foreigners for drug crimes, the trauma reverberates across the globe.
Do Black Kids Matter in Memphis?
Four years after the Department of Justice found that Memphis treated black juvenile offenders more harshly than their white peers, little has changed.
In the Battle Over Nebraska’s Death Penalty, Victims’ Families Refuse to Be Political Pawns
After Nebraska ended the death penalty last year, Gov. Pete Ricketts waged war against abolitionists. Who is he trying to punish?
Trials of Richard Glossip
Oklahoma’s Insane Rush to Execute
Amid lingering doubts over Richard Glossip’s guilt, a new report slams the state’s bungled execution protocol while proposing new, improved ways to kill.