A group of three judges on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday, reinstated the execution date for Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, for later this month. Montgomery, who was convicted of killing 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett in December 2004, had been scheduled to be put to death by a lethal injection in December. US district court judge of the Columbia circuit Randolph Moss delayed her execution after her attorneys contracted the coronavirus and
Moss ruled that the justice department unlawfully rescheduled Montgomery’s execution and he vacated an order from the director of the bureau of prisons scheduling her death for 12 January.
After strangling Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant, Montgomery cut the baby girl out of her womb with a kitchen knife and tried to pass her off as her own. The child survived the ordeal. The girls, who is 16 now was placed under the care of her father.
Mongomery’s attorneys tried to get President Trump to grant her a pardon, considering the extent of her mental health and on account of the sexual and physical abuse she had endured through her life. Montgomery has suffered severe abuse on account of being trafficked by her own mother. Years of torture is said to have resulted in severe brain damage.
Montgomery would be the first woman to be executed by the US government since 1953.
