The United States on Wednesday executed a woman who murdered a pregnant woman in 2004 to take her fetus, the first federal execution of a woman in nearly 70 years, in one of the last acts of Donald Trump’s presidency.
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“Lisa Montgomery, 52, was executed in the Terre Haute Federal Penitentiary,” in the midwestern state of Indiana, at 1:31 pm (local time), the Justice Department announced in a statement.
Montgomery was given a lethal injection “In accordance with the death penalty unanimously recommended by a federal jury and imposed by the United States District Court” of Missouri, the text continued.
Shortly before, the Supreme Court had dismissed the last appeals of the woman’s lawyers, despite the disagreement of the three progressive justices.
Lisa Montgomery, 52, was executed in Terre Haute Federal Penitentiary
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According to them, your client suffers from severe mental disorders, As a result of the gang attacks and rapes she suffered as a child, and does not understand the meaning of her punishment, this is an essential condition for her execution.
A federal judge had ordered the execution to be suspended at the request of the defense this Monday, but the Justice Department appealed the magistrate’s decision and an appeals court overturned the ruling Tuesday.
The United States Supreme Court, before which two different appeals were filed, reason in both cases to the Trump administration’s lawyers. In 2004, Montgomery, unable to have a new child, identified her victim – a dog breeder – on the Internet and came to her home in Missouri with the excuse to buy her a terrier.
Instead, he strangled her, opened her uterus, took her baby – who survived – and left the 23-year-old behind. Trump, a strong supporter of the death penalty, ignored a leniency application filed by Montgomery supporters.
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10 men executed
Since the resumption of federal executions in the United States in July, after a 17-year hiatus, 10 men have been sentenced to death. And in addition to Montgomery, the Trump administration plans to execute two African Americans this week: Corey Johnson this Thursday and Dustin Higgs this Friday.
The Donald Trump administration plans to execute two African Americans this week.
But in these cases, there is also uncertainty behind a federal court’s decision to block their executions. The two death row inmates recently took covid-19 and lThe lethal injection could cause them illegal suffering, the judges ruled.
Former Terre Haute penitentiary guards, meanwhile, wrote a letter to Acting Justice Secretary Jeffrey Rosen asking him to postpone these executions “until prison staff have been vaccinated against Covid-19.”
Dozens of people have to stay in a closed environment for an executionenvironment conducive to the spread of the virus. For this reason, states are suspending the executions for months.
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The Trump administration has done the opposite and he is in favor of executing executions as soon as possible before leaving power.
In the closing hours of Trump’s presidency, there is a race to execute people who have been on death row for years
“In the final hours of Trump’s presidency, there is a race to execute people who have been on death row for years or even decades. It’s crazy,” Democratic Senator Dick Durbin said on NPR radio on Monday. , who announced the introduction of a bill to stop federal executions again.
After the Democrats regain control of the Senate, it is possible that this text will be passed upon arrival at the White House of Joe Biden, who is against the death penalty.
AFP
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