Montgomery was executed on January 13, 2021. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder. They hired private executioners and paid them in cash.Ĭorey Johnson and Dustin Higgs are scheduled to be executed on Thursday and Friday, respectively, even though both were diagnosed with Covid-19 in December and are still experiencing symptoms-symptoms that could exacerbate pulmonary edema, a condition caused by execution drugs that results in a torturous sensation of drowning or suffocating, HuffPost reports. They bought drugs from a secret pharmacy that failed a quality test. They executed a second prisoner while an appeal was still pending, leaving the court to then dismiss the appeal as “moot” because the man was already dead. They left one prisoner strapped to the gurney while lawyers worked to remove a court order. They moved ahead with executions in the middle of the night. Officials gave public explanations for their choice of which prisoners should die that misstated key facts from the cases. An investigative report by ProPublica found that the rush to execute has been characterized by government secrecy, deceit, and misconduct. The Justice Department’s push to execute three people in the days before Trump leaves office caps an unprecedented spree of 10 federal executions since July. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that her attorneys were presenting her clemency petition (with 5,000 pages of evidence) to the Trump administration last Wednesday when armed rioters stormed the U.S. The federal government initially planned to execute Lisa Montgomery on December 8, but a federal court delayed the execution date because her two lead attorneys contracted Covid-19 after visiting her in federal prison.
Montgomery’s execution, citing evidence that the torture and abuse she suffered throughout her childhood left her brain damaged and severely mentally ill at the time of the crime for which she was sentenced to death. Hundreds of thousands of people-including prosecutors, child advocates, mental health groups, and anti-sex trafficking and anti-domestic violence groups-have called on President Trump to stop Ms. She was beaten and sexually trafficked by her mother and stepfather, who built a special room where he and his friends repeatedly raped, sodomized, and even urinated on Lisa. Montgomery, 52, suffers from brain damage and severe mental illnesses that result in dissociation and psychosis, as a recent court filing details. government in the past six months, and the first woman executed by the federal government in 68 years. Montgomery would be the 11th person put to death by the U.S.
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Montgomery was initially set to be executed in December, but the date was delayed after her attorneys, who are based in Nashville, Tennessee, contracted the coronavirus amid traveling to Texas and working on her case.The federal government plans to execute Lisa Montgomery Tuesday-one of three executions scheduled during the last full week of Donald Trump’s presidency. President-elect Joe Biden has suggested he would put a moratorium on the federal death penalty. The execution comes in the waning days of the Trump administration, which in 2019 announced plans to carry out the first federal executions in 17 years. Henry has said that Montgomery suffered from severe mental illness that was "exacerbated by the lifetime of sexual torture she suffered at the hands of caretakers," and her lawyers sought a chance to prove her incompetence. "The craven bloodlust of a failed administration was on full display tonight," Kelley Henry, an attorney for Montgomery, said in a statement. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder.
Earlier Wednesday, the Supreme Court lifted an appeals court stay that had blocked the execution, and it denied a request for a stay filed by Montgomery's attorneys that raised mental illness concerns.
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