Liliana Segura is a senior reporter at The Intercept, where she covers the U.S. criminal legal system, with a longtime focus on harsh sentencing, the death penalty, and wrongful convictions. Her writing has also appeared in The Nation, 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.”
Her work has garnered numerous awards, such as the 2016 Texas Gavel Award, 2017 Innocence Network Journalism Award, and the 2021 Izzy Award from the Park Center for Independent Media for her coverage of the Trump administration’s federal execution spree. She frequently appears as a guest on various news outlets, including National Public Radio, MSNBC, CNN International, and Democracy Now!
