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January 4, 2021

Court Reinstates Jan. 12 Execution of Lisa Montgomery, the Only Woman on Federal Death Row
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A panel of federal judges has reinstated the execution of Lisa
Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, for January 12. The
decision reversed a ruling one week earlier allowing for the
postponement of Mongomery's execution because her lawyers contracted
COVID-19. Montgomery's attorney is asking the court to reconsider the
ruling. She was convicted for the gruesome 2004 murder of a pregnant
woman, but advocates have been asking for clemency and say Montgomery
suffers from mental illness caused by a life of abuse. If the execution
goes ahead, Lisa Montgomery will be the first woman to be executed by
the federal government in nearly 70 years.


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