Lisa Montgomery executed on death row for murdering a pregnant woman and taking her baby

WASHINGTON – The state of Indiana today executed Lisa Montgomery , the only woman on death row in the United States, and the first to be executed in more than six decades at the federal level.

The execution by lethal injection occurred in the Terre Haute prison complex, after the Supreme Court The suspension that a federal court had ordered just a few hours before was lifted.

Lawyer alleges constitutional violation

“Our Constitution prohibits the execution of a person who cannot rationally understand his execution (…). The current administration knows this. And they killed her anyway, “denounced her lawyer Kelley Henry in a statement released by the media.

” Everyone who participated in the execution of Lisa Montgomery should feel ashamed, ”she added.

Lisa Montgomery, from 52 years, she was sentenced in 2007 for killing in 2004 to a woman of 23 years she was eight months pregnant and the baby was extracted, which was later recovered safe and sound by the authorities.

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