Lisa Montgomery, who killed a pregnant woman by strangling and cutting the unborn baby from her womb, was executed by lethal injection at a federal prison in Indiana before dawn Wednesday.
Should She Be Executed?
The execution of the only female on Federal Death Row set to happen this evening was put on hold. If executed she will be the first woman to face the death penalty by the United States Government in nearly 70 years. Originally the execution was set to take place on December 8
th, 2020 but was delayed to today (January 12, 2020) and has yet again been put on hold pending a competency hearing to assess her mental state. In December of 2004 Lisa Marie Montgomery killed a 23-year-old, pregnant woman in her home in Skidmore, Missouri. The woman, Bobbie Jo Stinnett, a dog breeder, met Montgomery in a Rat Terrier chatroom online called “Ratter Chatter”. Logging on under the name “Darlene Fischer” and claiming to also be pregnant the two begin sharing emails and bonding under their assumed mutual connection. On December 16
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.