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Melissa Jeltsen, Jessica Schulberg
January 11, 2021, 2:45 AM
Since President Donald Trump incited violent rioters to storm the U.S. Capitol last week, lawmakers and members of his own Cabinet have mulled whether he’s too dangerous to complete the final days of his presidency. Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat have decided he’s currently unfit to operate social media accounts on their platform.
But he still has the power to kill.
During his last full week as president, the Trump administration plans to execute three people on death row, capping a historically unprecedented six-month execution spree. The people scheduled for execution just days before the inauguration of a president who opposes the death penalty include a woman with a mental illness untreated at the time of her crime, a man with an intellectual disability that should render him ineligible for execution, and a man who did not pull the trigger in the killing he was convicted of.
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By Jessica Lussenhop
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Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. Her victim s community said otherwise.
This story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery s execution on 13 January.
For Diane Mattingly, there is one moment from her childhood for which she feels both enormous gratitude and guilt.
She credits this moment for her fairly normal life - a house on eight peaceful acres, a loving relationship with her children, nearly two decades at a job working for the state of Kentucky.