Lisa Montgomery, 52, was put to death via lethal injection on Wednesday, January 13, at a federal pr
Lisa Montgomery, 52, was put to death via lethal injection on Wednesday, January 13, at a federal prison in Indiana. She was the only woman residing on federal death row and the first woman to be executed by the federal government in 67 years. Montgomery was sentenced to death in 2008 for murdering an expectant mother in 2004, cutting the baby from the woman’s womb, and kidnapping the child, who survived.Montgomery’s attorneys and her supporters argued that she lived with mental illness and experienced a personal history of trauma and abuse that contributed to her crime. On Monday, an Indiana federal judge did grant her a brief stay of execution, pending a competency hearing. However, on Tuesday, a Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals panel vacated the stay, and Montgomery was executed shortly thereafter. Montgomery’s death was the 11th execution to be carried out by the Trump administration since it reinstated the use of federal capital punishment last July. Prior to that, a federal inmate had not been executed in 17 years. -- source link