The first female inmate on federal death row has been executed by the US government in nearly seven decades. Lisa Montgomery, who was in jail after strangling a pregnant woman to death before stealing her baby, was executed by lethal injection on January 13. Before that, the last woman to be executed by the US government was Bonnie Heady, who was put to death in a gas chamber in Missouri in 1953. A federal judge had granted a stay in.
The only female inmate on death row, jailed for kidnapping and strangling a pregnant woman in a bid to steal her baby, was granted a last-minute reprieve just hours before her scheduled execution.
The U.S. is set to execute the first woman in nearly seven decades this week despite numerous calls to stop the proceeding based on her mental health and history of abuse. Barring an unlikely last-minute intervention by federal courts or President Trump, convicted killer Lisa Montgomery will be put to death Tuesday at a federal facility in Terre Haute, Indiana.