Lisa Montgomery’s attorneys will address the Supreme Court and plead with Trump to read the clemency petition
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The attorneys for Lisa Montgomery , the only woman on federal death row, said Tuesday that they plan to go to the Supreme Court after losing their latest legal attempt to stop the execution due to take place next week.
It is planned that Montgomery, from 52 years, died by lethal injection he 12 January at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
His lawyers, relatives and supporters pleaded with the president on Tuesday Donald Trump to read his petition for clemency and make an executive decision to commute his sentence to life in prison with no possibility of l Probation.
Montgomery was sentenced to death in 2008 by a Missouri jury for the murder of a pregnant woman in 2004, to which he extracted the fetus and kidnapped it. The baby survived and was given to her father.
Lisa Montgomery will be the 11th person scheduled to be executed after the federal government took a break from 16 years.
In November, the Federal Bureau of Prisons of the Department of Justice reprogrammed for the 12 January Montgomery’s execution, which had originally been scheduled for December 8, after two of his lawyers were diagnosed with Covid – 19.
The request for clemency to Trump
His attorneys filed a clemency petition with Trump on 24 from December and they made released the documents on Tuesday . They cited Montgomery’s “life of sexual torture”, brain damage from birth, and severe mental illness as grounds for relief from the death penalty.
The petition includes letters of support from dozens of current and former prosecutors, mental health experts, and advocates working against domestic violence and human trafficking.
Former prosecutors Stanley Garnett and Harry Zimmerman wrote in their letter that women convicted of such crimes are rarely sentenced to death because the very nature of the act indicates a serious mental illness.
Montgomery is housed at the Federal Medical Center Carswell, but would be transferred to Terre Haute Federal Prison if her execution proceeds.
Montgomery is one of the Three federal death row inmates scheduled to be executed uted next week.
It is planned that Corey Johnson is executed on 14 of January and Dustin Higgs the 15 January, days before the inauguration of the president-elect Joe Biden , who has said that he will work to pass legislation that eliminates the death penalty at the federal level.
With information from CNN and
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