Lethal injection table, USA
In the United States, for the first time in almost 70 years, the death penalty will be applied to a woman. On Saturday, October 17, the Associated Press reports.
In 2007, a Kansas state court found Lisa Montgomery guilty of murdering an eight-month-old pregnant woman and opening her belly and taking her baby.
Montgomery committed the crime in 2004 in Skidmore, Missouri. The victim was 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett. The perpetrator came to her home under the pretext of buying a puppy. Montgomery attacked her and strangled her with a rope, after which she cut out the premature fetus with a kitchen knife. She took the girl with her and later tried to pass off as her child.
The lawyers tried to convince the jury that the woman at the time of the murder was experiencing hallucinations, and also suffered from pseudociesis – falsely felt pregnancy. However, the court sentenced her to death. On December 8, 2020, she will be given a lethal injection at the Terre Haute, Indiana Correctional Facility.
The last time a woman was executed in the United States was in 1953.
In September, it was reported that a black man had been executed for the first time in 17 years in the United States. Christopher Vialva was sentenced to death for the 1999 murder of a young married Christian activist couple in Texas. An execution by lethal injection was also carried out at Terre Jot Prison.
