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Lisa Montgomery, convicted of murder, was executed by the United States federal justice. In 2004 he killed a pregnant woman and kidnapped the fetus.
It has been around 70 years since the last time a woman was executed by federal justice in the United States. That changed Wednesday morning: Lisa Montgomery, the only woman sentenced to execution in the United States, was executed by lethal injection at Terre Haute, Indiana prison.
The 52-year-old deceased killed a pregnant woman in 2004, pulled her unborn child from her stomach and abducted her. He said the child was his. In 2007, Montgomery was found guilty of murder and kidnapping. She was later sentenced to death for the act, which had caused disgust and horror beyond the United States.
This was the first execution of a female criminal convicted under federal law since 1953, he said. Hours earlier, the Supreme Court had cleared the way for execution with two decisions.
The Trump administration resumed executions
In 2004, Montgomery met Bobbie Jo Stinnett, then 23, online. He visited his victim at his home in Skidmore, Missouri, on the pretext of wanting to buy him a dog. Stinnett was strangled and found with an open abdomen. After a search across the United States, police located the perpetrator in neighboring Kansas days later. The boy had it with her. He told friends and acquaintances that she was his own daughter. The girl survived the crime and grew up with her father.
Anti-execution activists had demonstrated against Montgomery’s planned execution. They pointed out serious traumatic experiences and sexual abuse, circumstances that would have led Montgomery, among other things, to the act.
The Trump administration resumed executions
The administration of US President Donald Trump had resumed carrying out death sentences last year after winning a legal battle. While many US states are carrying out the death penalty, previously no federal executions have taken place since 2003. According to media reports, the government has executed 10 criminals since then. Montgomery is the eleventh to be executed.
According to the Death Penalty Information Center, the United States government wants to carry out two more death sentences before Trump’s victorious challenger Joe Biden takes office on January 20. Future President Biden, a Democrat, has spoken out in favor of abolishing the death penalty at the federal level. Republican Trump is an advocate for the death penalty.
(Red./APA/dpa)
