Attorney General Bill Barr announced the federal government will resume capital punishment and plans to execute five inmates on death row for the first time since 2003.
The only woman on federal death row was set to be executed by lethal injection on Jan. 12, but Lisa Montgomery, 52, got a brief reprieve when, on Christmas Eve, a federal court pushed the date back.
The court claimed the January date violated federal regulations that establish procedures for carrying out capital punishment
Kelley Henry, one of the convicted killer’s attorneys, told Fox News she contracted the coronavirus in November when visiting Montgomery behind bars, setting back the preparation required to argue her last-minute clemency case. The legal team argues Montgomery suffers from a mental illness induced by a childhood of rampant rape and abuse.