A Kansas woman convicted of strangling a pregnant woman, cutting her body open and kidnapping her baby in 2004 is scheduled to be executed in December, marking the first instance of a federal female inmate being put to death in more than six decades, officials said Friday.
The woman, Lisa Montgomery, was found guilty in 2007 of federal kidnapping resulting in death in connection with a premeditated murder-kidnap scheme.The U.S.
Department of Justice said Montgomery is scheduled for lethal injection on Dec. 8 at the U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute in Indiana. “Her conviction and sentence were affirmed on appeal, and her request for collateral relief was rejected by every court that considered it,” the Justice Department said in a statement..
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