Last week, while Donald Trump holed up with his shrinking circle of advisors to plan nearly 150 pardons and commutations, including many for his friends and coconspirators, his Department of Justice concluded a string of 13 federal executions — breaking a 17-year hiatus of the federal death penalty. In just six months, in what Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor called an “expedited spree of executions,” the government put to death more than three times as many people as it had in the previous 60 years.
In the early hours of Wednesday, January 13th, Lisa Montgomery...
In the early hours of Wednesday, January 13th, Lisa Montgomery...
- 1/22/2021
- by Hannah Murphy
- Rollingstone.com
Early Wednesday, the Trump administration executed the only woman on federal death row, Lisa M. Montgomery, age 52. She was the first woman put to death in almost 70 years, according to The New York Times, the last two being Bonnie Brown Heady for kidnapping and murder and Ethel Rosenberg for espionage in 1953.
Montgomery was convicted in 2007 for murdering a pregnant woman and kidnapping her unborn child, who survived the attack. Montgomery feigned pregnancy to friends and family in 2004 and then contacted Bobbie Jo Stinnett — who was actually pregnant — saying she wanted...
Montgomery was convicted in 2007 for murdering a pregnant woman and kidnapping her unborn child, who survived the attack. Montgomery feigned pregnancy to friends and family in 2004 and then contacted Bobbie Jo Stinnett — who was actually pregnant — saying she wanted...
- 1/13/2021
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
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