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@LilianaSegura
Jul 30, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Hello, a short thread about this story, which I published yesterday: theintercept.com/2019/07/29/dea…
First, it’s about much more than politics, but some folks have taken umbrage at the framing/headline, as if I’m saying Dems are the ones REALLY to blame for Trump restarting executions. I invite those people to read the piece. Plenty of blame to go around. theintercept.com/2019/07/29/dea…
But if you’re mad I’m pointing out that the vast majority of people on federal death row are there bc of the 1994 Crime Bill, well, sorry. As one dp lawyer said, we’re only just starting to reckon w/the crime bill. “And we haven’t reckoned with the death penalty aspects” til now.
The good news: Dems have finally turned against the death penalty--a huge and recent shift. Hillary supported it (I wrote about that here: theintercept.com/2016/03/17/hil…) So did Obama. Federal death row is a small fraction of our system but it's where a president can have actual impact.
And when I say Dems: all major 2020 candidates claim to oppose it. Even Biden (lol). Several slammed Trump's move to restart executions. Great. So someone should ask what they’re gonna do about it. Perhaps at a debate! Will you impose a moratorium? Commute all sentences to LWOP?
If they're really against the death penalty, that means opposing it for everyone — including people on federal death row who have committed heinous crimes. If they aren’t willing to take meaningful steps against these executions, then we'll know it’s just empty rhetoric. *fin*

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Jun 15, 2023
Greetings from Pima County Superior Court in Tucson, AZ, where I have an important update in the Barry Jones case. Stand by for news. Image
BREAKING: After more than 28 years on Arizona's death row, Barry Jones was just resentenced to time served. He should be released shortly. Jones's case was at the heart of the 2022 SCOTUS ruling Shinn v. Ramirez, which reinstated his conviction despite evidence of his innocence.
Story to come @theintercept. You can read my full coverage of Barry Jones’s case here: legacy.theintercept.com/series/death-a…
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Jan 12, 2021
Good evening from the FCC Terre Haute Training Center, where reporters are gathered to cover the execution of Lisa Montgomery. There is more press than usual tonight. Some, including myself, are here for the 11th time since July 2020.
Non-witnessing press are currently being briefed by BOP spokesperson Scott Taylor, who just told us that the victim’s family will not be addressing reporters after the execution.
These are the vans that take media witnesses to the penitentiary. The execution was originally scheduled for 6pm, but multiple stays have been in place at various times and litigation is ongoing. Everyone agrees it could be a long night and that this will come down to SCOTUS.
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Nov 19, 2020
Hello from Terre Haute, IN, where the Trump administration plans to execute 49-year-old Orlando Hall tonight. There is a stay currently in place, which I only found out about upon arriving at the media center a little while ago. Of course, this could change.
By now there are several familiar faces at the FCC Terre Haute Training Center, from the BOP official who lets us in to park, to the lady taking temperatures, to the spokesperson who gives the brief media orientation. These are the vans that take press witnesses to the prison.
Ordinarily BOP staffers provide little to no information to press about the status of appeals, etc. But we have been told there is “activity in the courts” and that it could be a long night. As far as the DOJ is concerned, the execution will happen, it is just a matter of when.
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Sep 24, 2020
Good morning from Terre Haute, IN, where the DOJ plans to kill another man in the federal death chamber tonight--the 7th since July. Christopher Vialva was 19 when he killed a young couple in Fort Hood, TX. His co-defendant is also on death row. He was 18. theintercept.com/2020/09/20/fed…
At 40, Vialva isn't the youngest man to face execution under Trump. Lezmond Mitchell was 38 when he died last month. Both did horrific things at 19. Advocates for both also describe how they grew up, showed remorse, contributed to the world around them. theintercept.com/2020/08/25/lez…
When the Supreme Court struck down death sentences for juveniles in 2005, it was on the basis that young people are less culpable for their crimes. Scientific research has long shown that brain development continues well into our 20s. None of us are the same people we were at 19.
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Sep 22, 2020
So, I’m back in Terre Haute, IN, where the Trump DOJ is preparing to carry out its 6th federal execution since July. These vans were at the FCC Terre Haute Training Center a moment ago, but they just left, carrying media witnesses for the killing of William LeCroy at 6pm. Image
It's hard to know what more to say right now. This is my third trip to Terre Haute this year, following a couple of visits in 2019. Some previous coverage here: theintercept.com/2020/08/02/fed… & here
theintercept.com/2020/08/25/lez… & here theintercept.com/2020/09/09/fed…
When I first visited Terre Haute last year, my first stop was the local library, which has a small archive related to the federal penitentiary. When it opened in 1940, a fawning press described it as “a hospital to cure men of tendencies which make them socially undesirable.”
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Sep 9, 2020
I wrote (again) about the events in Terre Haute, where the Trump administration killed two more people last month. At least two more federal executions are set for this year, with additional dates likely to be on the way. theintercept.com/2020/09/09/fed…
One thing I want to quickly highlight is an interview I got too late to include in my previous piece about Lezmond Mitchell, whose lawyers tried unsuccessfully to get permission from the court to investigate racial bias among jurors. (More on that here): theintercept.com/2020/08/25/lez…
On the eve of Mitchell's death, I spoke to the jury foreperson. Despite the fact that she was among 11 white jurors (& one Navajo) she remembers thinking it was people "from all walks of life...all kinds of backgrounds. And I thought, Wow, this is really...a jury of your peers.”
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