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Employees at Florence's Federal Correction Complex are voicing their concerns over the staff shortage, saying they are noticing an "uptick" in violent behavior inside the facility the more they are overworked.
Updated at 2:14 a.m. ET Wednesday
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Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, died by lethal injection early Wednesday after the Supreme Court vacated several lower-court rulings, clearing the way for her to become the first female prisoner to be put to death by the U.S. government since 1953.
It was midnight when the Supreme Court ended a day of legal challenges, setting aside what Department of Justice attorneys called unwarranted obstacles to the execution of Montgomery for a crime of staggering brutality. By 1:31 a.m. ET Wednesday, she was pronounced dead.
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