A judge has granted a stay in what was slated to be the U.S. government’s first execution of a female inmate in nearly seven decades — a Kansas woman who killed an expectant mother in Missouri, cut the baby from her womb and passed off the newborn as her own.
Judge Patrick Hanlon granted the stay late Monday, citing the need to determine Montgomery’s mental competence, reported the Topeka Capital-Journal.
Lisa Montgomery faced execution Tuesday at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Ind., just eight days before President-elect Joe Biden, an opponent of the federal death penalty, takes office.
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