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The only woman on federal death row in the United States will be executed today.
Lisa Montgomery, 52, is ready to die by lethal injection at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana on Tuesday.
If she is killed as planned, she will become the first woman to be executed by the federal government in the United States in 70 years.
Montgomery was sentenced to death for murdering 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett, who was very pregnant, in December 2004.
He drove 170 miles from his home in Kansas to the dog breeder’s house in Skidmore, Missouri on the pretext of picking up a puppy.
But instead he strangled her with a rope and used a knife to perform an impromptu caesarean section before fleeing with the premature baby.
Montgomery to be executed at Terre Haute federal prison in Indiana
She was caught after trying to pass off the boy as her own as part of a plot to win custody of two of her four children.
Her computer records showed that she had investigated C-sections and had ordered a delivery kit.
Montgomery’s attorneys have argued that she had been sexually abused and was mentally ill at the time of the crime.
They appealed against the death penalty and managed to delay the date from December 8 to January 12 after his lawyers hired coronavirus visiting her in jail.
President Donald Trump has been criticized for “rushing” in five federal executions in recent months before being replaced by Joe biden.
Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard were executed within days of each other in December, and the cases of Cory Johnson and Dustin John Higgs are still continuing.
Until then, only three federal executions had taken place since 1988, when they were reinstated by the United States Supreme Court.
State executions have continued to occur, but federal ones remain rare.
President-elect Mr. Biden opposes the death penalty and says he plans to end capital punishment in the United States.
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