Federal government to execute first woman since 1953
The Department of Justice announced Friday that it has scheduled the execution of Lisa Montgomery for December 8, 2020. Montgomery will be the first female executed by the federal government in nearly seven decades. The last woman to be executed by the federal government was Bonnie Brown Heady, according to the , and executed by gas chamber at the Missouri State Penitentiary on December 18, 1953. Montgomery was given the death penalty in 2008 for , cutting the baby from her womb, and then pretending it was her own. She became just the third ...
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