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Lisa Montgomery's execution is scheduled for Dec. 8.
She could be one of the last people put to death by the Trump administration, which revived the federal death penalty in 2019. Her attorneys are in a fast-tracked fight to save her.
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2/ Montgomery was convicted of federal kidnapping resulting in death in 2007. Her attorneys say she was in a dissociative state when she strangled eight months pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett, and cut the fetus from Stinnett’s womb. Montgomery has since expressed “deep remorse.”
3/ Montgomery's attorneys are not asking for her to be released from prison, rather for her death sentence to be commuted to life in prison w/o parole, @keaux_ reports.
They say her severe mental illnesses, combined w/her being on suicide watch since October, should absolve her.
4/ Montgomery's attorneys have filed a lawsuit against the Dept. of Justice, asking for more 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.
5/ Montgomery’s execution process has been uncharacteristically rushed at every juncture. On August 3, the Supreme Court denied her final petition — and 74 days later, the Dept. of Justice set an execution date. https://bit.ly/2UmRUUC pic.twitter.com/M6fFHFraO9
6/ Seven people have been executed since Attorney General William Barr announced in 2019 that the federal death penalty would resume after an almost two decade lapse. President-elect Joe Biden campaigned on the promise to work to eliminate the federal death penalty.pic.twitter.com/22J6lqeqAF
7/7 “For me it highlights the arbitrariness of scheduling her execution when they did. If they had scheduled the execution, for early February, two months later, she wouldn’t be executed.”
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