Womb raider killer s execution halted hours before lethal death row injection
Lisa Montgomery, who is on death row, killed Bobbie Jo Stinnett in Missouri, US in 2004. She was due to receive a lethal injection at Terre Haute prison in Indiana on January 12
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Lisa Montgomery has had her execution halted (Image: via REUTERS)
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Womb raider killer to be first woman executed in nearly 70 years with lethal injection
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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.
7:22 pm UTC Jan. 13, 2021
Lisa Montgomery, a longtime Kansan, became the first woman to be executed by the federal government in 67 years early Wednesday. She lived a childhood so abusive her attorneys call it akin to torture.
She was beaten, repeatedly raped by her stepfather and his friends and sexually trafficked by her mother.
At 18, she married her stepbrother, who also beat and raped her. She had four children in less than four years before being sterilized. She lapsed increasingly into mental illness and repeatedly faked pregnancy.
But those who believe she should be put to death say her lifetime of horrors can t excuse what came next: On Dec. 16, 2004, she loaded a steak knife, umbilical cord clamps and part of a clothesline into her car and drove 175 miles from her home in east-central Kansas to the northwest Missouri home of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, an expectant mother she had met at a dog show.
An undated photo of Lisa M. Montgomery
When Donald Trump leaves the White House on January 20, 2021, he will be known, among other dishonors, for having executed more federal prisoners in a single year than any other before him. This may also include the only woman on federal death row, Lisa Montgomery, scheduled to die days before Biden, who opposes the federal death penalty, will be sworn in. Her lawyers have submitted a petition for clemency, detailing the multiple failures in Montgomery’s case, along with a long history of abuse and neglect by her family, and are asking the president to commute her sentence to life imprisonment. Unless Trump grants her clemency, or her execution is moved back, Lisa Montgomery will be killed, most likely with a lethal injection of pentobarbital, in Terre Haute, Indiana, on January 12, 2021.
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