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Lisa Montgomery’s death sentence is scheduled for December 8. She was found guilty of murdering a pregnant woman in 2004.
United States Attorney General William Barr has set dates for two federal executions, set to resume in 2020 after a 17-year hiatus. According to the United States Department of Justice website, the death sentences of Lisa Montgomery and Brandon Bernard will run in December.
Montgomery was found guilty of murdering a pregnant woman in 2004. She strangled the woman, who was eight months pregnant, cut her stomach with a kitchen knife and pulled the baby out, trying to pass it off as her own. Three years later, she was sentenced to death.
As Reuters noted, if Montgomery’s sentence is carried out, it will be the first federal execution of a woman since 1953.
Bernard was found guilty of complicity in the murder of priests Todd and Spacey Bagley in 1999. The couple agreed to take Bernard and several of his accomplices, but decided to rob them and later shot and burned along with the car. One of Bernard’s accomplices was executed on September 22 of this year.
Montgomery’s execution will take place on December 8, Bernard on December 10. These will be the eighth and ninth federal executions this year.
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