The panel overturned a previous ruling by a district judge
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Lisa Montgomery , the woman condemned to the death penalty at the federal level for having murdered a pregnant woman in Missouri and deliver the baby, will be executed by lethal injection before President-elect Joe Biden officially assume office.
A panel of three judges from the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit , concluded that the District Judge, Randolph Moss, was wrong when he overturned Montgomery’s execution date in a warrant last week.
The convict, who is the only female on federal death row, she will be executed on 11 January, according to the Associated Press report.
Moss ruled that the Department of Justice rescheduled irregularly executed Montgomery’s execution and overturned an order from the Director of the Bureau of Prisons scheduling his death for that date at the Federal Correctional Complex at Terre Haute, Indiana .
Initially, the execution de Montgomery was ready for last December. But Moss delayed the process after the woman’s lawyers contracted coronavirus and asked her to extend the time to file a clemency petition.
The appeals panel, at that attorney Meaghan VerGow asked to review the petition, did not agree with the district judge’s decision.
Montgomery is serving a capital sentence for killing Bobbie Jo Stinnett, by 23 years, in Skidmore, Missouri, in December 2004. The convict strangled the victim, who was eight months pregnant, with a rope, and then extracted the girl from the uterus with a knife. The baby survived.
Montgomery’s defense has argued that his client suffers from serious mental illness due to the pattern of physical and sexual violence that he suffered since childhood.
UN Objection
A United Nations panel ( UN) recently spoke out against the execution of women, today with 52 years.
The entity raised through the group that the defendant’s history of mental trauma was not presented during her trial in 2007 as extenuating circumstances for her sentence.
“Mrs. Montgomery was the victim of an extreme level of physical and sexual abuse throughout her life, against which the state never provided protection and for which it did not offer solutions, “said the UN panel through a press release from the UN Office for Human Rights, OHCHR .
“Mrs. Montgomery was subjected to multiple rapes since the 12 years and forced to prostitute herself at 15. She later married and was subjected to further abuse, some of which is captured on video. She had four children before being pressured to have her sterilized against her will. At the age of 34 years had moved 61 times. As a result of the trauma he experienced, he developed several serious mental conditions for which he did not have access to treatment ”, they add.
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- The UN requests that they do not execute the woman who killed a pregnant woman and took her baby
A United Nations panel ( UN) recently spoke out against the execution of women, today with 52 years.
The entity raised through the group that the defendant’s history of mental trauma was not presented during her trial in 2007 as extenuating circumstances for her sentence.
“Mrs. Montgomery was the victim of an extreme level of physical and sexual abuse throughout her life, against which the state never provided protection and for which it did not offer solutions, “said the UN panel through a press release from the UN Office for Human Rights, OHCHR .
“Mrs. Montgomery was subjected to multiple rapes since the 12 years and forced to prostitute herself at 15. She later married and was subjected to further abuse, some of which is captured on video. She had four children before being pressured to have her sterilized against her will. At the age of 34 years had moved 61 times. As a result of the trauma he experienced, he developed several serious mental conditions for which he did not have access to treatment ”, they add.
