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Last minute: The first execution of a woman in the US in 70 years has been postponed
Lisa Montgomery was supposed to be the first woman to be executed in the state since 1953, but the judge rejected the sentencing for the second time, after ruling that there was a need to test her mental fitness.
Montgomery was accused of strangling a pregnant woman to death in 2004 during her pregnancy, cutting her abdomen and removing the fetus
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Tuesday, 12 January 2021, 21:52
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In video: US judge rejects execution of woman (Photo: Reuters)
A judge in the United States has rejected the execution of a woman in the country for the first time in about 70 years.
Lisa Montgomery's execution was scheduled for today (Tuesday) at a federal facility in Indiana, but Judge Patrick Hanlon ruled there was a need to examine her mental fitness.
The decision comes eight days before Joe Biden, known for his opposition to the death penalty, takes office as President of the United States.
Montgomery, 52, was convicted of murdering Bobby Joe Stint, 23, in December 2004 in Skidmore, Missouri.
She strangled Stint to death with a rope, who was in her eighth month of pregnancy, then cut her abdomen and took her baby out of her womb, intending to raise her to failure.
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Her execution was postponed for a second time, Montgomery (Photo: Reuters)
Montgomery's defense team claims that she was sexually abused as a child and caused her mental instability.
"She has severe and cumulative brain damage, which has worsened due to a history of sexual assault," said her lawyer, Kelly Henry.
Her stepfather denied any assault on his part, even when confronted with his confession from the divorce trial period he conducted with her mother.
The execution was scheduled for Dec. 8 but was postponed after a member of her defense team infected Corona and visited her in jail.
Federal executions resumed in the United States last July, after a 17-year hiatus.
Organizations working against the death penalty in the country have accused outgoing President Donald Trump of pushing for their renewal in order to paint for himself a reputation as a leader who rules law and order, ahead of the November presidential election.
Senior government officials described the executions as redressing long-standing injustice and doing justice to the victims and their families.
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