US schedules 1st federal execution of woman in nearly 70 years

The U.S. Department of Justice has scheduled the federal execution of an inmate who was convicted of murdering a pregnant woman, cutting her open and kidnapping the baby from her womb.

Lisa Montgomery will be the first woman to be federally executed in nearly 70 years when her death sentence is carried out on Dec. 8 at the U.S. penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Montgomery was convicted of killing 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett in the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore in December 2004.

Montgomery drove from her Kansas home to Stinnett’s house in Skidmore under the guise of adopting a rat terrier puppy, prosecutors said.

When she arrived at the home, Montgomery used a rope to strangle Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant, but Stinnett was conscious and trying to defend herself as Montgomery used a kitchen knife to cut the baby girl from the womb, authorities said.

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.

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-schedules-1st-federal-execution-woman-70-years/story?id=73680835

Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/10/18/lisa-montgomery-scheduled-execution-bobbie-jo-stinnett-killing/3702848001/

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/17/lisa-montgomery-first-female-federal-inmate-executed--67-years-brandon-bernard

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