Lisa Montgomery, the only woman sentenced to death, will be executed on January 12 – Corriere.it

The execution of Lisa montgomery, the only woman waiting on death row in the United States, was set up on January 12. This was established by the judges of the Court of Appeals: sentence that will be executed, therefore, nine days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office, who promised to abolish the federal death penalty. Montgomery’s execution by lethal injection was scheduled for December 8, but a judge postponed it after his lawyers said he contracted Covid-19 after a visit to Montgomery in federal prison. Terre Haute, Indiana.
In 2007, Montgomery was sentenced to death for a particularly heinous crime committed in 2004: strangled a 23-year-old Missouri womanBobbie Jo Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant, cut her belly with a kitchen knife and extracted the little girl, who survived, in order to make believe she was his daughter.

Defense attorneys had asked Donald Trump to convert the woman’s sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole by taking advantage of about Montgomery’s mental illness: Given the severity of Ms. Montgomery’s mental illness, the sexual and physical torture she suffered throughout her life, and the link between her trauma and the facts of her crime, we call on President Trump to grant her mercy and commute your sentence to a life sentence. But yesterday a jury of three judges of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia considered valid for the execution the date fixed by the penitentiary direction, that is, January 12.

Montgomery will be the first federal execution (that is, ordered by the United States government and not by a single state) of a woman since 1953, the year Bonnie Heady was murdered in Missouri. Federal executions were frozen for 17 years before President Donald Trump ordered their reopening in 2020, and in the final months of his presidency, Trump “oversaw” 10 federal executions.