Prosecutor Floating Death Penalty for Nick Reiner Knows It’s an Empty Threat
LA District Attorney Nathan Hochman is playing politics by raising the specter of the death penalty for the murders of Rob and Michele Reiner.
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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Secretive Georgia Clemency Board Suspends Execution After Its Conflicts of Interest Are Exposed
Stacey Humphreys’s death sentence was rooted in juror misconduct. His fate may lie with people directly involved in his trial.
Alabama Begs Supreme Court to Make It Easier to Execute People With Intellectual Disabilities
The bizarre oral argument in Hamm v. Smith shows how decades of case law rooted in science is now under siege at the high court.
At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.
Richard Randolph, now Malik Abdul-Sajjad, is scheduled to die tonight. His biological mother will never get a chance to meet him.
Trials of Richard Glossip
Judge Failed to Disclose Personal Ties to Prosecutor in Two Death Row Cases
Veteran prosecutor Fern Smith convicted both Tremane Wood and Richard Glossip. She calls a judge in both cases a friend.
Chilling Dissent
Man Jailed for Facebook Meme Is Freed in Tennessee
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Trials of Richard Glossip
Her Mentor Sent Richard Glossip to Death Row. Can She Give Him a Fair Trial?
Judge Susan Stallings refuses to recuse herself from the third trial of Richard Glossip, despite her ties to the Oklahoma County DA’s office.
Chilling Dissent
The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme
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Indiana Killed Their Partners Under Cover Of Darkness. They Want Answers.
On the eve of another midnight execution, questions are mounting over recent lethal injections that witnesses fear were botched.
Chilling Dissent
The Persistent Push to Depict Luigi Mangione and His Supporters as Terrorists
Trump calls them extremists. Mainstream media casts them as unhinged. We saw something else at a protest for Luigi Mangione.