United States: Authorizes the first execution of a woman since 1953 | the Chronicle

A United States Court of Appeal overturned last week’s death penalty moratorium on Lisa Montgomery last week and on January 12, if implemented, she will be the first woman to face federal execution in the country since 1953.

Montgomery was convicted of a felony in 2004, in which she murdered a pregnant woman and pulled her 8 month old baby out of her womb., and after a stay of execution, the justice finally authorized that it be executed on January 12, eight days before the assumption of responsibility Joe biden as president.

Montgomery’s lawyer, Meaghan VerGow, announced that she intends to appeal in full the decision of the District of Columbia Court of Appeal and insisted that the woman, the only death row inmate in the United States, suffers from a serious mental disorder after being abused for years by her parents.

“Considering everything we know about Lisa Montgomery, her mental illness and the horrific life trauma she has endured, we see no logical reason for her execution.VerGow said in a statement asking President Donald Trump for a leniency order, CNN News Network reported.

The United States resumed executions at the federal level, regardless of those carried out in each state, last July on the orders of the country’s Attorney General, William Barr, after a 16-year moratorium.

Before Trump takes office,
only three federal executions took place during this period; the same ones that remain to be completed until January 20, date of the presidential replacement.

All were held under Republican President George W. Bush, and included inmate Timothy McVeigh., convicted of a bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City.

Montgomery was scheduled to be executed in Terre Haute, Indiana on December 8, but a stay was imposed after her lawyers contracted coronavirus. visiting him in prison.

December 26
Judge Randolph Moss quashed a Federal Bureau of Prisons order delaying his death until January 12, when he ruled in favor of a Montgomery defense request that said a date could not be set as long as there was a stay.

But a three-judge panel from the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals found the trial judge mistakenly delayed the date. and restored enforcement.

If carried out, Montgomery would be
the first woman to receive the death penalty since Bonnie Brown Heady, convicted of kidnapping and murder and executed on December 18, 1953, as recorded by the Bureau of Prisons.