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The brutal murder case shook the United States and generated news coverage around the world. In 2004, Montgomery strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett, 23, who was eight months pregnant. Then he cut up the baby and abducted him.
The then 36-year-old woman had told her friends and her husband that she was pregnant, even though she was unable to have children. He got in touch with Stinnett at a dog show and the two had contact via the internet.
Montgomery traveled from Kansas to Stinnett’s house in Missouri on the pretext that he wanted to buy a puppy. After killing the woman and cutting the baby, she called her husband and told him that she had given birth prematurely.
The baby survived
The baby survived and should not have received visible physical injuries as a result of the dramatic way he came into the world. A day later, police came to the door and found the baby in Montgomery. DNA tests showed that the girl was not hers.
She admitted murder, insult and kidnapping and was sentenced to death by a jury four years later. The execution will be carried out by injection of poison in Terre Haute, Indiana, on December 8. It will be the first federal execution of a woman in the United States since 1953, reports the New York Times.
Montgomery’s attorney has fought hard against the death sentence and believes the client has a brain injury and was abused as a child. Montgomery has lost all attempts to overturn the verdict.
Stop federal executions
The last woman to be executed by the state was Bonnie Heady in 1953. She was gassed to death in Missouri for kidnapping and killing billionaire Robert Greenlease’s six-year-old son that same year.
Under federal auspices, no one, regardless of gender, had been executed in 17 years before the Trump administration reintroduced the practice last year. This summer, the first federal execution took place when Daniel Lewis Lee was executed.
Federal death sentences were suspended in 2003 after several controversies arose over the poison used.
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At the state level, executions have continued. Today, there are 29 states that practice the death penalty. Since 1972, 16 women have been executed under the auspices of US states.
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According to the New York Times, it was for. April more than 50 women awaiting execution under state or federal auspices. It represents about 2 percent of all inmates on death row.
