The U.S. Court of Appeals has granted the execution of a Missouri woman who strangled a pregnant woman to death in 2005.
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Lisa Montgomery aka “Womb Raider” was convicted of the crime 13 years ago after she strangled the pregnant mother then cut her stomach open to take the unborn baby out. Originally, she was scheduled to be executed via lethal injection on Dec. 8 but it was delayed after a federal judge learned that one of her lawyers contracted COVID-19 during a visit.
On Friday, a three-judge panel ruled to carry on the execution and Montgomery will be put to death on January 12 despite her lawyers saying they will seek a full appeals court review. She will be the first woman in 70 years to be executed and the last during the remaining days of the Trump administration.
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Before her conviction, it was also revealed that she wanted to buy a child from the black market and harassed her ex-husband’s wife for $45,000.
She will be executed at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.
SOURCE: New York Post