She cut her baby out of a pregnant woman's belly, and Lisa Montgomery has now been executed in the USA.
For the first time in nearly 70 years, a woman was executed by US federal justice.
Terre Haute / USA - In the USA, a woman has
been executed by
federal justice for
the first time in almost 70 years
.
The death sentence against
Lisa Montgomery
was carried out on Wednesday in the Terre Haute correctional facility in the state of Indiana, the
US Department of Justice
said
.
The Supreme Court had recently cleared the way for the execution.
The 52-year-old was sentenced to death for the gruesome murder of a pregnant woman.
Lisa Montgomery / USA: For almost 70 years - First woman executed by US federal justice
A court in the state of Indiana suspended the execution of the sentence on Monday because of doubts about Montgomery's state of mind.
However, an appeals court overturned the decision a day later.
The
Supreme Court in Washington
finally
approved
the authorities
on
Wednesday
.
It was the first execution of a woman by U.S. federal justice since 1953.
Montgomery had strangled a heavily pregnant woman in 2004 and then cut the baby out of her belly.
One day after the crime, she was arrested at her home in Skidmore
, Missouri,
around 250 kilometers from the crime scene.
She had the stolen baby who survived the gruesome act with her.
Before she confessed, she told the police and her husband that she gave birth to the girl herself.
Montgomery was sentenced to death in 2007.
USA / Lisa Montgomery: She cut her baby out of the belly of a pregnant woman - a woman executed in the USA
The US Department of Justice ruled last year in her case, as well as twelve other death row inmates in federal prisons, that the executions should be carried out.
Previously, executions by federal justice had been suspended for 17 years.
The outgoing
US President Donald Trump
is a proponent of the death penalty.
He ignored a pardon from Montgomery's lawyers.