Federal Execution Can Proceed For Lisa Montgomery, Court Rules
at 3:44 pm NPR
Lisa Marie Montgomery said she was interested in purchasing a puppy. But once the Kansas woman arrived at Bobbie Jo Stinnett s Missouri home in 2004, she attacked the pregnant 23-year-old, using a rope to strangle her until she lost consciousness.
With a kitchen knife, Montgomery cut the 8-month-old fetus out of Stinnett s womb, taking it to raise as her own. Stinnett was found later by her mother, dead in a pool of blood.
Montgomery confessed to the killing, and the baby â who survived â was returned to the father. For the past 13 years, Montgomery has been incarcerated, the only woman currently on federal death row, waiting as her attorneys filed appeals.