The Trump administration executed Lisa Montgomery, 52, in the early hours of Wednesday morning, ending the tortured life of the only woman on federal death row. The government killed Montgomery with a lethal injection of pentobarbital over objections by her lawyers that her mental state rendered her incompetent for execution. Montgomery, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder with psychotic features and complex post-traumatic stress disorder,.
The execution of convicted murderer Lisa Montgomery is the first time the US government has implemented the death sentence for a female prisoner since 1953.
A U.S. District Judge in Washington has delayed the execution of two federal inmates, including a Maryland man scheduled to die Friday, the last of a group ordered to be executed by the Trump administration in its final days in office.
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The US government has executed convicted murderer Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, after the Supreme Court cleared the last hurdle for her execution by overturning a stay.
Montgomery s execution marked the first time the US government has implemented the death sentence for a female prisoner since 1953.
Challenges were fought across multiple federal courts on whether to allow execution of Montgomery, 52, who had initially been scheduled to be killed by lethal injections of pentobarbital, a powerful barbiturate, on Tuesday (local time) in the Justice Department s execution chamber at its prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.
A judge granted a stay of execution to Lisa Montgomery, slated to be the first woman executed by the US federal government in almost 70 years, on mental health grounds.