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The United States Department of Justice said it had been set for December 8 to implement the first death sentence issued by a federal court in nearly 70 years.
The ministry said in a statement that Lisa Montgomery, convicted of strangling a pregnant woman in the state of Missouri in 2004, will be executed by lethal injection at the “Terrehot” Correctional Center in Indiana.
The Death Penalty Information Center says the last woman to be executed by federal court decision was Bonnie Heidi, who was placed in a Missouri gas chamber in 1953.
Meanwhile, December 10 is scheduled for the execution of Brandon Bernard, who killed two ministers in 1999.
And after the implementation of the two federal sentences, it will be the eighth and ninth executions in twenty full years, according to “Reuters.”
The administration of President Donald Trump reapplied the federal death penalty after a 17-year hiatus, and the appeal came after allowing implementation by lethal injection, whereas previously it relied on a three-component substance.
The United States has not abolished the death penalty to date, and the verdict is enforced when rendered by the federal courts.
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