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Lisa Montgomery’s execution: ‘We cannot let this happen again’
This lightly edited statement was issued by Attorney Kelley Henry on the execution of Lisa Montgomery on Jan. 13 at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Lisa Montgomery
The craven bloodlust of a failed administration was on full display tonight. Everyone who participated in the execution of Lisa Montgomery should feel shame. No one disagrees that Mrs. Montgomery was the victim of unspeakable torture and sex trafficking . . . [and] no one can credibly dispute her long-standing debilitating mental disease diagnosed and treated for the first time by the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ own doctors.
An attorney for Pervis Payne says DNA evidence belonging to the Tennessee death row inmate has been found on part of a knife used in the slayings of a mother and daughter 33 years ago, but DNA from an unknown man also was found on the murder weapon