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Execution Date Set For Only Woman On Federal Death Row

Eric Quintanar
Execution Date Set For Only Woman On Federal Death Row
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons has scheduled a December execution date for a Kansas woman who was convicted in 2007 of fatally strangling a pregnant woman and mutilating her abdomen in order to raise the unborn child as her own. 

Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, will be executed by lethal injection on Dec. 8, 2020, in the U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, Indiana, sixteen years after she engaged in what the Department of Justice called a “premeditated murder-kidnap scheme” against 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett of Missouri.

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