The only woman sentenced to death to be executed in US for murdering pregnant woman and stealing baby

A United States Court of Appeals authorized the execution of the death penalty against Lisa Montgomery and put as date January 12. The convict, the only woman “condemned to death”, murdered a pregnant woman in 2004 to steal her baby. If the sentence is met, will be the first woman to undergo federal execution in this country after almost 70 years.

Montgomery’s lawyer, Meaghan VerGow, announced that he would appeal the judge’s decision and insisted that his client have a serious mental disorder after years of abuse by their parents, agency says Telam.

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Montgomery murdered a young pregnant woman in December 2004 for the sole purpose of stealing your baby. She was convicted of the crime and was due to be executed at Terre Haute Prison in Indiana on December 8. But that was put on hold after his lawyers found that the woman had coronavirus.

On December 26, moreover, the judge Randolph Moss overturned an order by the Federal Bureau of Prisons postponing his death until Jan. 12, ruling in favor of a demand by his lawyers. However, a three-judge panel of the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that the magistrate delayed date by mistake and reinstated execution.

If the sentence is carried out, Montgomery said to be first woman to receive the death penalty in nearly 70 years.

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The antecedent dates from 1953, and is Bonnie Brown Heady, convicted of kidnapping and murder and executed on December 18 of the same year, according to the Bureau of Prisons register.

Lisa Montgomery, a childhood of abuse and mistreatment

During the trial and in subsequent proceedings, the convict’s defense, 36 years old at the time of the crime, alleged that the woman had suffered all kinds of abuse and ill-treatment during her lifetime: She was raped by her stepfather and started drinking as a teenager. When she was 14, her mother found out about the abuse and blamed her for it.

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When she managed to escape from her home, she met her husband, Carl Bowman, with whom she had four children and later separated. In 2000, she married Kevin Montgomery, with whom she formed an assembled family. Being with him, she faked a pregnancy and that’s what caused her to steal another woman’s baby.

The crime committed by Lisa Montgomery

On December 16, 2004, Montgomery, claiming to be pregnant with her fifth child, drove from her home in Kansas to the home of a 23-year-old girl named Bobbie Jo Stinnett, in Skidmore, with the excuse of adopting a pet. The two had contacted via an animal care website. However, when he arrived at the scene, he took a rope and strangled the victim, who was eight months pregnant.

Stinnett tried to defend himself while the attacker used a kitchen knife to cut open her abdomen and remove the baby. He carefully cut the umbilical cord, wrapped it in a blanket, and went home.

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The next day she was arrested and the newborn, who is currently 15 years old, she was returned to her biological father. The man had gone to work when his wife was killed.