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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsExecuting Lisa Montgomery Would Be One of Trump's Final Cruelties
Content warning: This snippet and the full article have distressing details regarding the sexual abuse of children and other violence.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/lisa-montgomery-execution/
From a young age, Lisa Marie Montgomery endured brutal physical and sexual assaults at the hands of her mother and stepfather, leading to severe mental illness. Now, 52, she is set to be the first woman executed by the federal government in 67 years.
In 2004, Montgomery contacted Bobbie Jo Stinnett, a dog breeder who was eight months pregnant. On the pretext of buying a puppy, Montgomery, who lived in Kansas, drove to Stinnetts Missouri home. Montgomery strangled Stinnett, cut open her abdomen, and removed her fetus. She took the baby home and told her husband that she had gone into labor while shopping.
She was arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to death in federal court. (The baby was returned to Stinnetts husband.) Montgomery is the only woman on federal death row.
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In death penalty cases, the death penalty is never mandatory, Sandra Babcock, faculty director of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty, told me. Instead, it is at the discretion of the prosecutor. In Montgomerys case, that prosecutor was Alberto Gonzales, known for his overzealous pursuit of capital punishment, and his support for warrantless wiretapping and torture as George W. Bushs White House counsel and, later, his attorney general.
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Executing Lisa Montgomery Would Be One of Trump's Final Cruelties (Original Post)
WhiskeyGrinder
Nov 2020
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PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,848 posts)1. The death penalty is wrong.
Period.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,326 posts)2. Agreed. Abolish it.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,326 posts)3. Kick.
mvd
(65,173 posts)4. K&R
I am against the DP, but this case is even weak for supporters of capital punishment.