Lisa Montgomery: US judge grants another stay of execution [View all]
Source: The Guardian/AP
A judge has granted another stay in what was slated to be the US government’s first execution of a female inmate in nearly seven decades.
Judge Patrick Hanlon granted the stay late on Monday, citing the need to determine Lisa Montgomery’s mental competence, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported.
Montgomery faced execution on Tuesday at the federal correctional complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, eight days before the president-elect, Joe Biden, an opponent of the federal death penalty, takes office.
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Montgomery’s lawyers have argued that sexual abuse during her childhood led to mental illness. Attorney Kelley Henry spoke in favour of Monday’s decision, saying in a statement to the Capital-Journal that “Mrs Montgomery has brain damage and severe mental illness that was exacerbated by the lifetime of sexual torture she suffered at the hands of caretakers”.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/12/lisa-montgomery-us-judge-grants-another-stay-of-execution
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