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Lisa Montgomery becomes first woman to be executed by federal government since 1953
Content warning: Lisa's story is deeply sad and infuriating, full of physical, sexual, mental and emotional abuse starting when she was a toddler. So many people failed her, over and over again, and then the government killed her.
https://19thnews.org/2021/01/lisa-montgomery-first-woman-executed-federal-government-since-1953/
TERRE HAUTE, Indiana — Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, made a calendar counting down to January 20 — Inauguration Day. She knew President-elect Joe Biden had promised to end the federal death penalty. “That’s how positive I’m being,” Montgomery told her sister Diane Mattingly during a December phone call.
On January 13, seven days before Biden will take office, the federal government executed Montgomery, 52. In 2004, she killed Bobbie Jo Stinnett, a pregnant woman, and kidnapped the child that she cut from Stinnett’s stomach. Montgomery’s attorneys and family say she was in the midst of a dissociative episode.
A district court blocked the execution of two people later this week, which means Montgomery could be the 11th and final execution under the Trump administration, which resumed federal executions after a nearly two decade hiatus. Prior to Montgomery, the federal government had not executed a woman since 1953.
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“In the past week, we have seen just how far President Trump and his administration will go in their disdain for justice and the rule of law. This failed government adds itself to the long list of people and institutions who failed Lisa,” Montgomery’s longtime attorney Kelley Henry said in a statement just before the execution took place. “We should recognize Lisa Montgomery’s execution for what it was: the vicious, unlawful, and unnecessary exercise of authoritarian power. We cannot let this happen again.”
On January 13, seven days before Biden will take office, the federal government executed Montgomery, 52. In 2004, she killed Bobbie Jo Stinnett, a pregnant woman, and kidnapped the child that she cut from Stinnett’s stomach. Montgomery’s attorneys and family say she was in the midst of a dissociative episode.
A district court blocked the execution of two people later this week, which means Montgomery could be the 11th and final execution under the Trump administration, which resumed federal executions after a nearly two decade hiatus. Prior to Montgomery, the federal government had not executed a woman since 1953.
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“In the past week, we have seen just how far President Trump and his administration will go in their disdain for justice and the rule of law. This failed government adds itself to the long list of people and institutions who failed Lisa,” Montgomery’s longtime attorney Kelley Henry said in a statement just before the execution took place. “We should recognize Lisa Montgomery’s execution for what it was: the vicious, unlawful, and unnecessary exercise of authoritarian power. We cannot let this happen again.”
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