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The United States of America will re-execute a woman, nearly 70 years after the last time they did so. This is Lisa Montgomery, from Kansas and the only woman among the 55 detainees in federal jails who are on so-called “death row,” that is, awaiting execution. Convicted in 2008, the date for this execution was set this Friday by the Department of Justice of the United States government: December 8.
Montgomery was sentenced to death for strangling a pregnant woman in 2004. As reported in the statement issued Friday, the woman had met Bobbie Jo Stineett in an online conversation and agreed to buy her a puppy.
She went from Kansas to Missouri, where Stineett lived, and carried out “a premeditated murder and kidnapping plan”, which consisted of strangling the woman and removing her baby, at the time she was eight months pregnant. She took the boy home and posed him as her daughter, until the crime was solved and Montgomery herself admitted it. Bobbie Stineett couldn’t resist the injuries, unlike her daughter, Victoria Jo, now 16, who was raised by her father.
Montgomery’s defense has long claimed that the woman was also the victim during her childhood of successive beatings that left her with irreversible brain damage, in addition to other mental problems. However, Attorney General William Barr deemed all defense resources exhausted and placed Montgomery’s crime in the “especially egregious” group.
In July, the Death Penalty Action group, which is fighting to end the death penalty in the United States, held a demonstration in front of the Terre Haute compound.
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The statement also reports on another execution, scheduled for two days later, on December 10. This is Brandon Bernard, a 40-year-old man charged with the 1999 murder of two Texas church pastors, who will also be given the lethal injection at the same prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, where a group is based. . He recently spoke out against the death penalty in the United States.
The last time a woman was executed in the country was in December 1953, exactly 67 years before it happened again. It was Bonnie Brown Heady, convicted of kidnapping and murdering a six-year-old boy, heir to the fortune of her father, Robert Cosgrove Greenlease, a billionaire in the automotive industry. With her boyfriend, involved in the crime, Heady was executed in a gas chamber.
