Lisa Montgomery could be one of the last people put to death by the Trump administration, which revived the federal death penalty.
The last time the federal government executed a woman was in 1953.
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2/ Montgomery is the only woman currently on federal death row. Her attorneys say her severe mental illnesses should absolve her from being “exterminated from the human race.” They are in a fast-tracked fight to save Montgomery, whose execution is scheduled for Dec. 8.
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3/ Montgomery's attorneys filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Dept. of Justice, asking for time to work on her clemency application. Montgomery's federal public defenders are currently incapacitated after contracting COVID-19 shortly after a series of visits w/her in prison.
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4/4 “I was really shocked when they set her execution date,” said @DeathPenaltyWW's Sandra Babcock.
“It is such an extraordinarily ... case for clemency that I never believed — even this administration — that they would seek to execute her this year.”https://bit.ly/2UmRUUC
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