Lisa Montgomery executed?
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What took so long was that the federal death penalty was just reinstalled back in 2019, after I believe Clinton had placed it on hold. Depending on who's President, it seems to kind of go back & forth. Biden will go back to placing it on hold, which is why you've seen a recent uptick in the numbers recently.
The woman executed last night was supposedly mentally ill, so her lawyers had argued for years that she cannot be executed due to her mental illness. Of course, cutting open a pregnant woman, and stealing her baby kind of has mentally deranged written all over it, but I think the execution was justified.
Lisa Montgomery fatally strangled a pregnant woman, Bobbie Jo Stinnett, cut open her body, and kidnapped her baby. In December 2004, as part of a premeditated murder-kidnap scheme, Montgomery drove from her home in Kansas to Stinnett’s home in Missouri, purportedly to purchase a puppy. Once inside the residence, Montgomery attacked and strangled Stinnett—who was eight months pregnant—until the victim lost consciousness. Using a kitchen knife, Montgomery then cut into Stinnett’s abdomen, causing her to regain consciousness. A struggle ensued, and Montgomery strangled Stinnett to death. Montgomery then removed the baby from Stinnett’s body, took the baby with her, and attempted to pass it off as her own. Montgomery subsequently confessed to murdering Stinnett and abducting her child. In October 2007, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri found Montgomery guilty of federal kidnapping resulting in death, and unanimously recommended a death sentence, which the court imposed. Her conviction and sentence were affirmed on appeal, and her request for collateral relief was rejected by every court that considered it. Montgomery is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on December 8, 2020, at U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, Indiana.
