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2/ Montgomery’s attorneys have until Dec. 24 to petition for clemency, U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss ordered Thursday.https://bit.ly/3lNch9O
3/ Montgomery was convicted of federal kidnapping resulting in death, and has expressed “deep remorse” for strangling eight months pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett, and cutting the fetus from Stinnett’s womb. Her attorneys say she was in a dissociative state.https://bit.ly/3lNch9O
4/ Defense attorneys argue that the pandemic has imposed constraints on other federal death row prisoners who submitted clemency applications. The nature of Montgomery’s crime and “public interest in allowing the execution” to move forward is overwhelming, court documents say.
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/hycPeWhkyt
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/TVoVf0WyLv
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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