Bryan Woolston /2YaBlBx1fZ- Bryan Woolston, Photojournalist January 13, 2021 in September of that year.Activists in opposition to the #deathpenalty gather to protest the execution of Lisa Montgomery, who is set to be 1st woman put to death by federal gov't in nearly 70 yrs, at the US Penitentiary in Terre Haute, In, U.S. Heady and her boyfriend Carl Austin Hall were found guilty of abducting and murdering six-year-old Bobby Greenlease Jr. The last female inmate to be served the federal death penalty was Bonny Brown Heady who was executed at Missouri gas chamber on 18 December 1953. penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana where she will be executed by lethal injection on 8 December. She is the only one of 1,051 inmates at FMC Carswell on death row. She is currently being held at the Federal Medical Center in Carswell, Fort Worth, Texas. Montgomery was diagnosed with depression, borderline personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and severe pseudocyesis delusion - “a false belief of being pregnant”. Montgomery’s defence team appealed on a number of grounds, arguing that the case lacked expert evidence, that the jury were not properly instructed and that it could not be proved that kidnapping resulted in Stinnett’s death. NBC Los Angeles OctoMontgomery appeal thrown out 8 for the 2004 murder of a pregnant woman in Missouri. Lisa Montgomery is scheduled to be put to death on Dec. “ willfully and unlawfully kidnapped, abducted, carried away, and held Victoria Jo Stinnett, for the purpose and benefit of claiming Victoria Jo Stinnett as her child, and willfully transported Victoria Jo Stinnett in interstate commerce from Skidmore, Missouri, across the state line to Melvern, Kansas, the actions of the defendant resulting in the death of Bobbie Jo Stinnett”. The prosecution claimed that the attack was premeditated and the death penalty decision was upheld on 4 April 2008. In October 2007, she was tried and convicted for "kidnapping resulting in death” - jurors returned a verdict that Montgomery was guilty of murder and on 26 October 2007, she was served a death sentence by Senior District Judge Gary A. Montgomery was arrested at her farmhouse in Kansas the following day while the new-born baby girl was returned to its father. WYANDOTTE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPAR EFE Montgomery arrested, claiming Stinnett's baby was her own Stinnett was found in a pool of blood about an hour later by her mother Becky Harper, she was rushed to hospital where doctors tried to revive here but pronounced dead soon after arrival.įull screen Lisa Montgomery is scheduled to be executed on 8 December. She was subsequently attacked by Montgomery, who strangled her from behind with a piece of cord then slit open her stomach with a kitchen knife, before removing the unborn baby which she then took home. It is believed that Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant, let Montgomery into her home believing her to be a legitimate customer. It is thought that the two women had never met in person until Montgomery called at Stinnett’s house in Skidmore, Missouri, under an assumed alias ‘Darlene Fischer’ a prospective buyer of a rat terrier puppy from Stinnett’s dog-breeding business – Happy Haven Farms. On 16 December 2004, Montgomery, entered the home of 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett whom she had befriended on an online chat forum. The 52-year-old has been on death row since 2008 after being charged with kidnapping resulting in death. Lisa Montgomery will become the first female inmate to be executed in almost seven decades.
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