i'm in Terre Haute, Indiana, where Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, is scheduled to be executed today. prison officials are moving ahead with plans, despite multiple courts orders halting the execution.
my latest for @19thnews:https://19thnews.org/2021/01/chaos-in-the-courts-as-only-woman-on-federal-death-rows-execution-date-arrives/ …
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members of Congress have signed onto a letter to SCOTUS asking the Justices to spare Lisa Montgomery's life. they expect the 117th Congress to end the federal death penalty and continuing with this execution would be "both arbitrary and unjust," it reads.https://twitter.com/RepEspaillat/status/1349114044834320384?s=20 …
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with the final stay lifted by SCOTUS, the media witnesses are off to Lisa Montgomery’s execution — the first time the federal government has done this to a woman since 1953.pic.twitter.com/NhE2SVY5sv
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@RDunhamDPIC earlier today “The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed every execution so far to go forward on increasingly partisan lines. ... is (SCOTUS) a fair and neutral arbiter of death penalty issues or has it become a rubber stamp for executions?"https://19thnews.org/2021/01/chaos-in-the-courts-as-only-woman-on-federal-death-rows-execution-date-arrives/ …Show this thread -
ending this day’s thread with a final story. Lisa Montgomery was pronounced dead at 1:31 am eastern time. she was the only woman on federal death row. she was mentally ill and endured a lifetime of trauma that ended with a in injection of pentobarbital.https://19thnews.org/2021/01/lisa-montgomery-first-woman-executed-federal-government-since-1953/ …
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