Mental health could halt execution of killer who cut baby from womb
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MARYVILLE, MO - DECEMBER 20: A police line still remains outside the home of Zeb and Bobbi Jo Stinnett December 20, 2004 in Skidmore, Missouri. Bobbi Jo was murdered December 16, 2004 and her unborn baby Victoria Jo Stinnett cut from her womb and tra
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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - A judge has temporarily stopped the U.S. government’s plans Tuesday to carry out the first federal execution of a female inmate in nearly seven decades, finding that the Kansas woman who killed an expectant mother, cut the baby from her womb and tried to pass off the newborn as her own was likely mentally ill and couldn’t comprehend she would be put to death.
(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
Yesterday the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit set aside an Order by a United States District Court Judge which had blocked the execution of Linda Montgomery, currently set to take place on January 12, 2021.
Montgomery was convicted of the December 16, 2004, murder of 23-year-old Bobbi Jo Stinnett in Skidmore, Missouri. Stinnett was eight months pregnant when Montgomery strangled her.
Montgomery entered Stinnett’s house that day under the guise of being a purchaser of a Rat Terrier puppy bred by Stinnett and her husband. After strangling Stinnett, Montgomery cut the baby from her womb and left.
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