For the first time in 70 years, women will be executed in the USA
The US Federal Court of Appeals ruled in error in a lower judge's sentence, which deferred the first federal death sentence for a woman in 70 years, NBC News reported.
Lisa Montgomery, convicted of the particularly brutal murder of a 23-year-old pregnant woman in 2004, was to be executed on December 8 in Indiana by lethal injection.
The district court decided to postpone the enforcement of the verdict in connection with the infection of Montgomery's lawyers with COVID-19. They needed time to recover from their illness and apply for a mitigation of punishment. The execution was postponed to January 12, 2021, but due to the cancellation of the district court's verdict, it may be carried out earlier, the message says.
Earlier, Kazakhstan ratified the international protocol on the abolition of the death penalty. The signatory countries commit themselves not to use the death penalty and to make efforts to abolish it.
