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The detainee is sentenced to death for strangling an 8-month-pregnant woman in Missouri in 2004 before performing a cesarean section and abducting the child. The execution, suspended in December, was again set for January 12. The woman’s lawyers announced the appeal.
Green light for the execution of the only woman waiting on death row: this is Lisa Montgomery, sentenced to death for strangling an 8-month-pregnant woman in 2004, in Missouri, before performing a caesarean section and kidnapping to the child. The execution date was set for January 12. If executed, Montgomery will be the first inmate to be executed in nearly 70 years.
The suspension and then the green light for execution.
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Usa, youngest man sentenced to death executed
The execution was scheduled for December, but then a stay came because the woman’s lawyers had contracted the coronavirus, CNN reported. Therefore, the date had been moved to January 12, but lawyers had appealed that it could not be set while the suspension was still in effect. The court had initially accepted, blocking the order of the prison director, but now a panel of judges has reviewed the decision, giving the green light to the execution. However, Montgomery’s attorneys have announced an appeal.
Federal executions in the US
The last woman to be executed in the United States, according to the records of the United States Bureau of Prisons, was Bonnie Heady, in 1953, in Missouri. Federal executions were frozen for 17 years before President Donald Trump ordered them to resume last year.
