Current Events > Trump carries out 1st execution of female inmate since 1953

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A Kansas woman was executed Wednesday for strangling an expectant mother in Missouri and cutting the baby from her womb, the first time in nearly seven decades that the U.S. government has put to death a female inmate.
Lisa Montgomery, 52, was pronounced dead at 1:31 a.m. after receiving a lethal injection at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. She was the 11th prisoner to receive a lethal injection there since July when President Donald Trump, an ardent supporter of capital punishment, resumed federal executions following 17 years without one.
As a curtain was raised in the execution chamber, Montgomery looked momentarily bewildered as she glanced at journalists peering at her from behind thick glass. As the execution process began, a woman standing over Montgomerys shoulder leaned over, gently removed Montgomerys face mask and asked her if she had any last words. No, Montgomery responded in a quiet, muffled voice. She said nothing else.
She tapped her fingers nervously for several seconds, a heart-shaped tattoo on her thumb, showed no signs of distress, and quickly closed her eyes. As the lethal injection began, Montgomery kept licking her lips and gasped briefly as pentobarbital, a lethal drug, entered her body through IVs on both arms. A few minutes later, her midsection throbbed for a moment, but quickly stopped.
Montgomery lay on a gurney in the pale-green execution chamber, her glasses on and her grayish brown hair spilling over a green medical pillow. At 1:30 a.m., an official in black gloves with a stethoscope walked into the room, listened to her heart and chest, then walked out. She was pronounced dead a minute later.
The craven bloodlust of a failed administration was on full display tonight, Montgomerys attorney, Kelley Henry said in a statement. Everyone who participated in the execution of Lisa Montgomery should feel shame.
The government stopped at nothing in its zeal to kill this damaged and delusional woman, Henry said. Lisa Montgomerys execution was far from justice.
It came after hours of legal wrangling before the Supreme Court cleared the way for the execution to move forward. Montgomery was the first of the final three federal inmates scheduled to die before next weeks inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, who is expected to discontinue federal executions.
But a federal judge for the District of Columbia halted the scheduled executions later this week of Corey Johnson and Dustin Higgs in a ruling Tuesday. Johnson, convicted of killing seven people related to his drug trafficking in Virginia, and Higgs, convicted of ordering the murders of three women in Maryland, both tested positive for COVID-19 last month.
Montgomery killed 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett in the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore in 2004. She used a rope to strangle Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant, and then cut the baby girl from the womb with a kitchen knife. Montgomery took the child with her and attempted to pass the girl off as her own.
An appeals court granted Montgomery a stay of execution Tuesday, shortly after another appeals court lifted an Indiana judges ruling that found she was likely mentally ill and couldnt comprehend she would be put to death. But both appeals were lifted, allowing the execution of the only female on federal death row to go forward.
U.S. District Judge James Patrick Hanlon, who had halted Montgomery's execution before the stay was overturned on appeal, cited defense experts who alleged Montgomery suffered from depression, borderline personality disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. Montgomery, the judge wrote, also suffered around the time of the killing from an extremely rare condition called pseudocyesis in which a womans false belief she is pregnant triggers hormonal and physical changes as if she were actually pregnant.
Montgomery also experiences delusions and hallucinations, believing God spoke with her through connect-the-dot puzzles, the judge said, citing defense experts. The government has acknowledged Montgomerys mental issues but disputes that she cant comprehend that she is scheduled for execution for killing another person because of them.
Details of the crime at times left jurors in tears during her trial.
Prosecutors told the jury Montgomery drove about 170 miles (274 kilometers) from her Melvern, Kansas, farmhouse to the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore under the guise of adopting a rat terrier puppy from Stinnett. She strangled Stinnett performing a crude cesarean and fleeing with the baby.
Prosecutors said Stinnett regained consciousness and tried to defend herself as Montgomery cut the baby girl from her womb. Later that day, Montgomery called her husband to pick her up in the parking lot of a Long John Silvers in Topeka, Kansas, telling him she had delivered the baby earlier in the day at a nearby birthing center.
Montgomery was arrested the next day after showing off the premature infant, Victoria Jo, who is now 16 years old and hasnt spoken publicly about the tragedy.
Prosecutors said the motive was that Montgomerys ex-husband knew she had undergone a tubal ligation that made her sterile and planned to reveal she was lying about being pregnant in an effort to get custody of two of their four children. Needing a baby before a fast-approaching court date, Montgomery turned her focus on Stinnett, whom she had met at dog shows.
Anti-death penalty groups said Trump was pushing for executions prior to the November election in a cynical bid to burnish a reputation as a law-and-order leader.
The last woman executed by the federal government was Bonnie Brown Heady on Dec. 18, 1953, for the kidnapping and murder of a 6-year-old boy in Missouri.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-prepares-1st-execution-female-044522466.html

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Ned Stark always says you should carry out your executions yourself.

I'm wondering why Trump opted to restart federal executions at such a quick pace right now

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ah yes, the pro life party

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My guess is that he knows his time is up and the sick fuck just wanted to feel the exhiliaration of ordering someone's execution one last time.

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Doom_Art posted...

I'm wondering why Trump opted to restart federal executions at such a quick pace right now

He can't get an erection without killing a poor person and it's gonna be a lot harder to make that happen next week.

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I'm sure this type of thing probably happens more often than we realize, but a very similar thing happened just last year I believe. But the killer was in her 20s as well as the victim I think. She drove across states and killed a girl on her Facebook friends list and took the baby out of the victim's womb and tried to go to a hospital and said she had just delivered. The baby didn't survive though.

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Trump is a shitbag and all, but

UnlikedMonkey posted...

A Kansas woman was executed Wednesday for strangling an expectant mother in Missouri and cutting the baby from her womb

Fairest of fucking nexts

Who they need to execute is the gabriel fernandez father

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He's made executing prisoners his top priority probably because he's still mad about being wrong with the central park 5.

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Doom_Art posted...

I'm wondering why Trump opted to restart federal executions at such a quick pace right now

Making space at the gallows for him and his cronies

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SPE posted...

ah yes, the pro life party

Did you read what she did? I'm surprised the sentence wasn't carried out sooner.

SMH why the pro-abortion crowd thinks the very worst criminals deserve any sympathy.

Fair next

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Beemo_Season11 posted...

Did you read what she did? I'm surprised the sentence wasn't carried out sooner.

SMH why the pro-abortion crowd thinks the very worst criminals deserve any sympathy.

I do not oppose her getting the death penalty. She deserved it.

I do not go around hyrule or the Korok forest calling myself pro life though, unlike these guys


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Bobbi jo gets justice

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Beemo_Season11 posted...

Did you read what she did?

doesn't matter

the state shouldn't kill people. end of story.

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Doom_Art posted...

doesn't matter

the state shouldn't kill people. end of story.

People shouldn't kill each other.

The state delivers justice so no else has to suffer.

Nuff said

Beemo_Season11 posted...

People shouldn't kill each other.

Exactly, I'm glad you agree with me.

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Beemo_Season11 posted...

Did you read what she did? I'm surprised the sentence wasn't carried out sooner.

SMH why the pro-abortion crowd thinks the very worst criminals deserve any sympathy.

Ya I don't get it either. The pro-life ideal comes from the bible. You know what the bible also says? Do fucked shit like that lady did and you'll be put to death.

There is always that "gotcha". But it doesn't actually make sense.

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That is some messed up stuff. I don't think i've even heard of something like this in fiction. She ripped out the baby?!