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A federal judge delayed the execution of the only woman sentenced to death in the United States due to a problem with the date setting. This postponement opens the possibility that the fulfillment of the sentence of Lisa Montgomery is scheduled for after the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, who opposes the death penalty.
Judge Randolph Moss determined that the Department of Justice illegally rescheduled the execution and canceled an order that indicated January 12 as the date of enforcement of the sentence.
According to the order, the execution cannot be scheduled until January and generally the convicted person must be notified at least 20 days before the death penalty is applied, which may mean that the execution will be scheduled after the investiture of the new president on January 20. Biden has not yet indicated whether the executions will stop shortly after taking office.
Biden “opposes the death penalty now and in the future” and as president will work in that direction, spokesman for President-elect TJ Ducklo told the Associated Press. But Biden’s representatives did not indicate whether the executions would stop immediately after the new president took office.
Lisa Montgomery was convicted of murdering Bobbie Jo Stinnett, 23, eight months pregnant in the town of Skidmore (in northwestern Missouri) in December 2004.
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