Trials of Richard Glossip
The Case Against Richard Glossip Is Crumbling, But He Is Still Scheduled to Die in a Week
On the eve of Richard Glossip's most recent execution date, a new witness came forward with evidence that Glossip was framed.
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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Trials of Richard Glossip
With Questions Over His Guilt, Court Gives Richard Glossip Two More Weeks To Live
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”
The closer Oklahoma comes to killing Richard Glossip, the more reason there is to believe the state is about to execute an innocent man.
Trials of Richard Glossip
Time Is Running Out for Richard Glossip
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
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
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.
What Justice Breyer's Dissent on Lethal Injection Showed About the Death Penalty's Defenders
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
When Indiana sentenced Paula Cooper to die in 1986, she became the youngest person on death row and her case sparked a global movement.
What Do Prison Families Think of Hillary's Promises About Mass Incarceration?
As the Clintons publicly disavow “tough on crime” policies they once pushed, those who are still living with the consequences are skeptical.
Will the Supreme Court Look Behind the Curtain of Lethal Injection?
Seven years after upholding lethal injection the U.S. Supreme Court once again confronts questions about the drugs the state uses in executions.