{"id":7453,"date":"2021-01-13T08:57:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T08:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/13\/dispatches-from-trumps-killing-spree-2\/"},"modified":"2021-01-13T08:57:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T08:57:26","slug":"dispatches-from-trumps-killing-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/13\/dispatches-from-trumps-killing-spree\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatches from Trump\u2019s Killing Spree"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ccb_single_video_player \" data-controls=\"1\" data-autohide=\"1\" data-fs=\"1\" data-theme=\"dark\" data-color=\"red\" data-iv_load_policy=\"3\" data-modestbranding=\"1\" data-rel=\"0\" data-showinfo=\"1\" data-autoplay=\"0\" data-disablekb=\"0\" data-nocookie=\"1\" data-aspect_ratio=\"16x9\" data-width=\"640\" data-video_position=\"above-content\" data-volume=\"100\" data-video_id=\"MdBtiAj9cj0\" style=\"width:640px; height:360px; max-width:100%;\"><!-- player container --><\/div>\n<p>One of three people facing the federal death penalty this week has won a stay of execution in two separate federal appeals courts. Lisa Montgomery\u2019s attorneys argue that she is not competent to face execution, and suffers from serious mental illness and brain damage stemming from \u201ca lifetime of sexual torture she suffered at the hands of caretakers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Days before President Trump leaves office, his administration has rushed to execute Montgomery and two more people \u2014 Cory Johnson and Dustin Higgs \u2014 capping an unprecedented killing spree on federal death row that began in July of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson and Higgs recently contracted Covid-19, and their lawyers are arguing that their symptoms, combined with the effects of lethal injection, amount to cruel and unusual punishment.<\/p>\n<p>When Trump\u2019s Department of Justice began restarted federal executions for the first time in 17 years, The Intercept\u2019s Liliana Segura began traveling to the site of the execution chamber in Terre Haute, Ind. These are her dispatches from the death machine.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/13\/dispatches-from-trumps-killing-spree-2\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of three people facing the federal death penalty this week has won a stay of execution in two separate federal appeals courts. Lisa Montgomery\u2019s attorneys argue that\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7454,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453\/revisions\/7454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}