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.

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Image #: 39805255 Protestors and family members embrace after hearing the news that Governor Mary Fallin issued a stay for death row inmate Richard Glossip outside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, September 30, 2015. Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin on Wednesday granted inmate Richard Glossip a 37-day stay of execution to give the state time to address whether its execution protocols comply with procedures approved by the federal court. Glossip, 52, was found guilty of arranging the 1997 murder of Barry Van Treese, the owner of an Oklahoma City motel that Glossip was managing. REUTERS/Nick Oxford /LANDOV

Trials of Richard Glossip

With Last-Minute Stay, Richard Glossip Execution Blocked — Again

Liliana Segura, Jordan Smith

- Oct. 1, 2015

In a dramatic and wholly unexpected move, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin halted the execution of Richard Glossip on Wednesday, citing “last-minute questions” about the lethal injection protocol the state planned to use to kill him.

Trials of Richard Glossip

Why Is Oklahoma So Eager to Kill Richard Glossip?

Liliana Segura

- Sep. 29, 2015

Following intimidation tactics by the DA against new witnesses, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals denied Glossip’s last attempt to prove his innocence.

Trials of Richard Glossip

The Case Against Richard Glossip Is Crumbling, But He Is Still Scheduled to Die in a Week

Liliana Segura

- Sep. 23, 2015

On the eve of Richard Glossip's most recent execution date, a new witness came forward with evidence that Glossip was framed.

Kathleen Lord, center, and Don Knight, right, two of Richard Glossip's defense attorneys, look on as Sister Helen Prejean, left, addresses the media outside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester Okla., Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015, after a stay was issued for Glossip. Glossip was twice convicted of ordering the killing of Barry Van Treese, who owned the Oklahoma City motel where he worked. His co-worker, Justin Sneed, was convicted of fatally beating Van Treese and was a key prosecution witness in Glossip's trials. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Trials of Richard Glossip

With Questions Over His Guilt, Court Gives Richard Glossip Two More Weeks To Live

Liliana Segura, Jordan Smith

- Sep. 16, 2015

An Oklahoma appeals court issued a last-minute stay of execution for Richard Glossip in order to consider new evidence that could prove his innocence.

Trials of Richard Glossip

Richard Glossip Is Set to Die Wednesday, as D.A. Calls New Evidence a “Bullshit PR Campaign”

Liliana Segura, Jordan Smith

- Sep. 15, 2015

The closer Oklahoma comes to killing Richard Glossip, the more reason there is to believe the state is about to execute an innocent man.

** ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, JAN. 27 ** A guard tower and razor wire are pictured at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla., Friday, Jan. 18, 2008. (AP Photo)

Trials of Richard Glossip

Time Is Running Out for Richard Glossip

Liliana Segura

- Sep. 4, 2015

Relatives of the key witness who sent Richard Glossip to die say the state got the wrong story. Yet Oklahoma plans to execute him on September 16.

Trials of Richard Glossip

As Glossip Execution Nears, Lawyers Challenge Death Penalty Itself as Cruel and Unusual

Jordan Smith, Liliana Segura

- July 24, 2015

In a petition filed Friday, attorneys for three men on Oklahoma's death row show why each case reveals the death penalty to be cruel and unusual punishment.

Trials of Richard Glossip

Oklahoma Prepares to Execute Richard Glossip

Liliana Segura, Jordan Smith

- July 9, 2015

Richard Glossip, the lead plaintiff in <em>Glossip v. Gross</em>, the Supreme Court decision that legalized a controversial form of lethal injection, now faces death — but he may well be innocent.

FILE - This May 27, 2008 file photo shows the gurney in Huntsville, Texas, where Texas' condemned are strapped down to receive a lethal dose of drugs. Texas prison officials say they’ve secured a new supply of pentobarbital that will allow the nation’s most active death penalty state to continue executions. Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark also said the prison agency is not identifying the source of the new drug inventory because of threats made against previous suppliers when they were identified as a provider of lethal injection drugs. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)

What Justice Breyer's Dissent on Lethal Injection Showed About the Death Penalty's Defenders

Liliana Segura

- June 30, 2015

Alongside a flimsy majority opinion in <em>Glossip v. Gross</em>, Justice Breyer's dissent exposed just how much cruelty must be tolerated to defend the death penalty in 2015.

From Death Row at 16 to Suicide at 45: The Life and Death of Paula Cooper

Liliana Segura

- June 12, 2015

When Indiana sentenced Paula Cooper to die in 1986, she became the youngest person on death row and her case sparked a global movement.

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With Last-Minute Stay, Richard Glossip Execution Blocked — Again

Why Is Oklahoma So Eager to Kill Richard Glossip?

The Case Against Richard Glossip Is Crumbling, But He Is Still Scheduled to Die in a Week

With Questions Over His Guilt, Court Gives Richard Glossip Two More Weeks To Live

Richard Glossip Is Set to Die Wednesday, as D.A. Calls New Evidence a “Bullshit PR Campaign”

Time Is Running Out for Richard Glossip

As Glossip Execution Nears, Lawyers Challenge Death Penalty Itself as Cruel and Unusual

Oklahoma Prepares to Execute Richard Glossip

What Justice Breyer's Dissent on Lethal Injection Showed About the Death Penalty's Defenders

From Death Row at 16 to Suicide at 45: The Life and Death of Paula Cooper

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With Last-Minute Stay, Richard Glossip Execution Blocked — Again

Why Is Oklahoma So Eager to Kill Richard Glossip?

The Case Against Richard Glossip Is Crumbling, But He Is Still Scheduled to Die in a Week

With Questions Over His Guilt, Court Gives Richard Glossip Two More Weeks To Live

Richard Glossip Is Set to Die Wednesday, as D.A. Calls New Evidence a “Bullshit PR Campaign”

Time Is Running Out for Richard Glossip

As Glossip Execution Nears, Lawyers Challenge Death Penalty Itself as Cruel and Unusual

Oklahoma Prepares to Execute Richard Glossip

What Justice Breyer's Dissent on Lethal Injection Showed About the Death Penalty's Defenders

From Death Row at 16 to Suicide at 45: The Life and Death of Paula Cooper

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