{"id":18030,"date":"2021-01-02T11:54:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T16:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=18030"},"modified":"2021-01-02T11:54:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T16:54:13","slug":"lisa-montgomery-only-woman-on-us-federal-death-row-to-face-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2021\/01\/02\/lisa-montgomery-only-woman-on-us-federal-death-row-to-face-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Montgomery: Only woman on US federal death row to face execution"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A US appeals court has lifted a stay of execution on the only woman awaiting a federal death penalty.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Lisa Montgomery strangled a pregnant woman in Missouri before cutting out and kidnapping the baby in 2004.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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If the execution goes ahead, she will be the first female federal inmate to be put to death in almost 70 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Montgomery’s execution date was originally set for last month but a stay was put in place after her attorneys contracted Covid-19.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It was then rescheduled for 12 January by the Justice Department. But Montgomery’s lawyers argued that the date could not be set while a stay was in place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A court sided with her attorneys, stopping an order from the director of the Bureau of Prisons scheduling her death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But on Friday,\u00a0a panel of judges concluded that the director had acted under the law<\/a>, allowing the execution to take place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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