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as the so-called ‘Womb Raider Killer’ Lisa Montgomery did on Wednesday.She received a lethal injection but refused to offer any final words.Here is a look at what some criminals on death row have chosen to say before being executed. “Give my love to my family and friends”Infamous serial killer Ted Bundy kidnapped, raped and murdered numerous women during the 1970s.Before his execution in 1989 by electric chair in Florida, he confessed to 30 murders across seven states.But the exact number of his victims remains unknown.His last words were: “I’d like you to give my love to my family and friends.”“Go to a quiet place and think about it seriously”Sex offender William Bonin, known as the ‘Freeway Killer’, was convicted of murdering 14 boys and

The teenage daughter of 'womb raider' Lisa Montgomery's victim finally has "closure" after the killer's execution, according to her family.

'Womb raider' Lisa Montgomery researched 'caesareans' and 'birthing kits' before killing a cutting a baby from the stomach of an expectant mum.

'Womb raider' Lisa Montgomery was found cradling the baby she cut from a mum-to-be while watching her own police appeal.

The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxThe so-called 'Womb Raider Killer' refused to give any final words as she died gasping for air in prison, according to a harrowing account by witnesses.Lisa Montgomery, 52, was sentenced to death for killing 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett in Missouri, US in December 2004.She was finally put to death in the early hours of Wednesday morning, becoming the first woman executed in the US since 1953, after a number of delays and a legal battle to reduce her sentence.The killer received a lethal injection at Terre Haute prison in Indiana – the only federal jail with an active death chamber - after a last minute stay of execution was

A Kansas woman was executed Wednesday for strangling an expectant mother in Missouri and cutting the baby from her womb, the first time in nearly seven decades that the U.S. government has put to death a female inmate.

The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxLisa Montgomery has died after the Supreme Court backed her execution and cleared all remaining legal barriers to her death.The Supreme Court removed a legal barrier in a new order allowing the lethal injection of Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on death row.On Tuesday a federal judge granted the 'Womb Raider' killer a stay of execution, pending a competency hearing, on mental health grounds.His decision was based on Montgomery’s mental capability as her attorney says she does not understand the government’s reasons for execution.But the delay was quickly overruled overnight by the US Supreme Court, according to reports, and she was

The US Supreme Court has overturned the decision to delay the 'womb raider' killer Lisa Montgomery's execution.

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.

With less than a week to go before her scheduled execution at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, on Jan. 12, attorneys for Lisa Montgomery are pleading with President Trump to agree to her clemency petition and save her life. Montgomery's Tennessee-based lawyer, Kelley Henry, stressed to Fox News on Wednesday that they are not in any way requesting the 52-year-old have her sentenced commuted, but to take the fast-approaching death sentence off the table in favor of life behind bars without parole.

The execution date for the only woman on federal death row has been rescheduled just days before Donald Trump leaves the White House.

The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxA US court has ruled that Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on death row, can finally be executed this month.Montgomery strangled a pregnant woman to death in Missouri before cutting her unborn baby out of her womb and kidnapping her in 2004.A new ruling, handed down by a three-judge panel in the US Court of Appeals, concluded that a previous judge was wrong to vacate the killer's execution date.It had been ruled that the Justice Department unlawfully rescheduled the execution, and a vacate date had been put in place to kill the so-called 'Womb Raider' on January 12.She had been due to be put to death by lethal injection in December,

A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. has lifted a stay of execution for a female death row prisoner scheduled to be executed later this month. Lisa Montgomery, the only female on the federal death row, had been scheduled to die by lethal injection in December, but a federal judge ordered a delay.

The only woman on federal death row was set to be executed by lethal injection on Jan. 12, but Lisa Montgomery, 52, got a brief reprieve when, on Christmas Eve, a federal court pushed the date back.

The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxThe execution of a murderer dubbed "the womb raider" after she killed a pregnant woman to carve out her unborn child and pass it off as her own has been delayed.Lisa Montgomery, now 52, was convicted in 2007 of kidnapping and strangling Bobbie Jo Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant.The women were already acquaintances from the local dog showing circuit in Fairfax, Missouri, and Montgomery not only knew Stinnett was pregnant, but also told mutual friends she was expecting too – not that they ever saw a bump.She also tricked her husband into believing that she was pregnant.Then, just before Christmas, she invented a new persona,

The execution of the 'womb raider' killer Lisa Montgomery has been delayed.

Lisa Montgomery's new execution date for her conviction in a Missouri womb-raiding case that horrified investigators and the small town where it happened has been put off until next month. The U.S.

A federal judge temporarily halted the planned execution of Lisa Montgomery after her attorneys contracted coronavirus.  U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss issued the ruling Thursday from Washington.The move bars the Bureau of Prisons from carrying out the Dec.

Two lawyers representing Lisa Montgomery, the first woman to face the federal death penalty in nearly 70 years, have moved to delay her execution because they contracted the coronavirus while working on her case, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

More than 1,000 advocates, including current and former prosecutors organized through Cornell Law School, are asking President Trump to spare the life of the only woman currently on death row in the U.S. who was convicted of strangling a pregnant woman and cutting out the baby to raise as her own.

The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxLisa Montgomery will become the first female to be executed in the US in 67 years.She was sentenced to death after committing the sickening crimes of murdering a pregnant woman, carving the unborn child out of her womb, and kidnapping the baby in 2004.Her death will mark the eighth federal execution in the US this year after President Donald Trump's administration restarted them after 17 years.The attorney general, William Barr, said the crimes were "especially heinous murders".Meanwhile, Montgomery’s lawyers argued she had been suffering from delusions when she killed Bobbie Jo, but a jury rejected her defence.Lisa Montgomery, 43, is a