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With less than a week to go before her scheduled execution at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, on Jan. 12, attorneys for Lisa Montgomery are pleading with President Trump to agree to her clemency petition and save her life.
Montgomery s Tennessee-based lawyer, Kelley Henry, stressed to Fox News on Wednesday that they are not in any way requesting the 52-year-old have her sentenced commuted, but to take the fast-approaching death sentence off the table in favor of life behind bars without parole.
From their purview, Trump can be a hero by making a very public statement about the importance of ending the stigmatization of mental illness.
In Trump’s final months in office, Lisa Montgomery a mentally ill victim of sex trafficking, mental, physical and sexual abuse is the first woman the U.S. will execute in 7 decades.
Judge reinstates execution of federal death row s only female inmate: Murderer who strangled woman to death and cut her baby from her womb will be put to death on January 12
Federal appeals court gives the greenlight for the only woman on federal death row to be executed before Joe Biden takes office
Convicted murderer Lisa Montgomery s execution was scheduled for December 8 but was then put back until January 12 after her lawyers fell ill with COVID-19
U.S. District Court Judge ruled the DOJ unlawfully resheduled Montgomery s execution and vacated an order for her to be put to death on January 12
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.
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