Lisa Montgomery murdered a pregnant woman in 2004, then opened her uterus and took her baby. Justice convicted her in 2007 and she was executed this Wednesday, January 13, 2021.
This Wednesday, January 13, 2021, the United States executed Lisa Montgomery, who had murdered a pregnant woman in 2004. This was one of the last actions of the Donald Trump government.
Montgomery pleaded guilty in 2007 to murdering a pregnant woman in 2004. The killer had come to her victim’s home in Missouri, supposedly to buy her a dog, however, she strangled her, opened her uterus and took the baby.
Montgomery’s defense asked the Donald Trump government for clemency and also appealed the death penalty, to request a life sentence. The lawyers defended that Lisa had very serious mental disorders, as a result of the mistreatment and rapes that she suffered from her stepfather when she was 11 years old.
A federal judge ordered the execution to be suspended at the defense’s request, but the Justice Ministry appealed the ruling and a court overturned it on Tuesday, January 12, 2021.
Lisa Montgomery received the lethal injection and was executed at the Terre Haute Federal Penitentiary, in the state of Indiana. She was the first woman to be federally executed in nearly 70 years in the United States.
The government of Donald Trump executed 10 people during his administration and hopes to convict two African-Americans this week, although their execution would be delayed, because they are infected with Covid-19 and the lethal injection could generate illegal suffering in the persons.
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