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The execution of the detainee had been suspended because the accused had coronavirus. However, if the sentence is carried out, Lisa Montgomery would be the first woman to receive the death penalty after almost 70 years in the United States.
A United States Court of Appeal authorized the execution of the death penalty against Lisa Montgomery and set the date of January 12. The damned, the only woman on ‘death row’, murdered a pregnant woman in 2004 to steal her baby. If the sentence is fulfilled, she will be the first woman to face federal execution in that country in almost 70 years.
The Montgomery attorney, Meaghan VerGow, announced that he will appeal the decision of the Justice and insisted that his client suffers from a serious mental disorder after years of being abused by his parents, according to the Télam agency.
He December 26 Besides, Judge Randolph Moss overturned an order from the Federal Bureau of Prisons rescheduling his death for January 12 by ruling in favor of a request from his attorneyss. However, a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found that the magistrate mistakenly delayed the date and reinstated execution.
If the sentence is carried out, Montgomery would be the first woman to receive the death penalty in nearly 70 years.
Lisa Montgomery’s childhood
During the trial and in subsequent instances, the defense of the convicted woman, who was 36 years old at the time of committing the crime, alleged that the woman suffered all kinds of abuse and mistreatment during her life: she was raped by her stepfather and began as a teenager to consume alcohol. When she was 14 her mother discovered the abuse and blamed her for it.
When she managed to escape from home, she met her husband, Carl Bowman, with whom she had four children and later separated. In 2000 she married Kevin Montgomery, with whom she formed an assembled family. Being with him, she simulated a pregnancy and that was what led her to steal another woman’s baby.
Crime and detention
On December 16, 2004, Montgomery, claiming to be pregnant with her fifth child, drove from her home in Kansas to the home of a 23-year-old named Bobbie Jo Stinnett, in Skidmore, with the excuse of adopting a pet. The two had contacted through an animal care website. However when he arrived at the scene, he took a rope and strangled the victim, who was eight months pregnant.
Stinnett tried to defend herself as the attacker used a kitchen knife to slice open her abdomen and remove the baby. He carefully cut the umbilical cord, wrapped her in a blanket, and went home.
The next day she was arrested and the newborn, who is now 15 years old, was returned to her biological father. The man had gone to work when his wife was killed.
Source: TN
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