The execution of Lisa Mo suspended in the United States …

An American federal judge suspended the scheduled execution on Tuesday of Lisa Montgomery, the only woman sentenced to death, pending a jurisdictional hearing on the case.

As reported by CNN, Judge James Hanlon has ordered the suspension for this hearing to take place, for which no date has yet been set.

His order suspends Montgomery’s execution by lethal injection, scheduled for Tuesday at the Federal Correctional Complex of Terre Haute, and Indiana.

Lisa Montgomery, 52, was sentenced in 2007 for strangling a 23-year-old pregnant woman in 2004 eight months to take her baby, who was later found safe by the authorities.

If performed, this this would be the first execution of a woman in the United States in nearly 70 years and would take place just days after the inauguration as President of Democrat Joe Biden, who opposes the death penalty.