The US is set to execute a female federal inmate for the 1st time in 67 years, Donald Trump’s justice department has said.
Lisa Montgomery, who strangled a Missouri woman in 2004 and stole her unborn baby, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at the US penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, on 8 December.
Montgomery, whose lawyers have long argued she has brain damage from beatings as a child and suffers from psychosis and other mental conditions, will become the first woman executed by the US government since Bonny Brown Heady in December 1953.
Heady was convicted of kidnapping and killing the 6-year-old heir of an automobile tycoon.
With her boyfriend, she was executed in a gas chamber.
The attorney general, William Barr, announced the decision to proceed with the execution of Montgomery, 52, in a statement that also detailed a 10 December execution date for Brandon Bernard, 40, who with 2 accomplices was found guilty of the murder of 2 church ministers in Texas in 1999.
Barr said the crimes were “especially heinous murders”. Montgomery, who sliced open the belly of Bobby Jo Stinnett and took her daughter, is the only woman among 55 federal inmates awaiting execution, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
Source: The Associated Press, Staff, October 17, 2020
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