Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on death row at a U.S. federal prison, was executed by lethal injection at Terre Haute Federal Prison in Indiana early in the morning, becoming the first female federal prisoner to be executed in the United States in 67 years.
Montgomery attacked 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett in Missouri in 2004. Montgomery strangled Stinnett, who was 8 months pregnant, with a rope and removed her fetus with a kitchen knife as her own child. Sninette was later found dead in a pool of blood by her mother, and the surviving baby was returned to its biological father.
After Montgomery’s arrest, her attorney argued that Montgomery was delusional and believed she was pregnant as a “false pregnancy” and did not realize she had done anything wrong when she committed the murder. The judge is expected to be lenient. In 2007, the jury refused to believe that Montgomery was delusional and favored her death sentence.
The Trump administration restarted a 17-year moratorium on federal executions in July 2020 and carried out 10 executions during the year, the first time since 1896 that the number of federal executions in a single year exceeded double digits.
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