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Kelley Henry hadn’t been on an airplane for nearly seven months when she learned the Department of Justice had set an execution date for Lisa Montgomery, who was the only woman on the federal government’s death row.
It was a Friday in October when the warden of Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, called and put Montgomery on the phone with Henry and her co-counsel, Amy Harwell. Montgomery was crying and could barely speak.
“With Lisa, there was no just talking with her over the phone,” says Henry, the supervisory assistant federal public defender based in Nashville, Tennessee, who had represented Montgomery since 2012. Henry explains that as a child, Montgomery was sex trafficked by her mother and gang-raped by adult men, which exacerbated severe mental health issues that existed on both sides of her family. “We needed to physically observe her,” Henry says.
Immunization sign at Walmart in Falmouth.
The CDC issued new recommendations Thursday allowing fully vaccinated people to go without masks outdoors and indoors, with some exceptions.
The relaxing of guidelines does not apply to unvaccinated people, including children.
Cape Cod’s COVID-19 Task Force said the change is welcome news as summer approaches and the region heads into high season for tourism.
Task force spokesman Julian Cyr, a state senator, urged the public and visitors to continue to carry masks for situations that require them like if you’re entering a business that wants to have that protection for employees.
Capeâs summer vaccine push lagging in communities of color Share Updated: 11:22 AM EDT May 13, 2021 By Katie Lannan/State House News Service WCVB Share Updated: 11:22 AM EDT May 13, 2021 By Katie Lannan/State House News Service Cape Cod remains on track to meet its goal of having 75 percent of the region s population vaccinated against COVID-19 by the start of the summer season, but breakdowns by racial and ethnic groups show a significant gap among different demographics, Sen. Julian Cyr said Thursday.On a call with other members of Cape Cod s COVID-19 response task force, Cyr said 62 percent of white Cape Codders had received at least one vaccine dose, compared to 37 percent of the region s Black residents, 53 percent of its Hispanic residents, 51 percent of its Asian residents and 15 percent of its Native American residents. This is unacceptable, and we must do a better job reaching out to communities to ensure tha