Lisa Montgomery

Federal government executes the first woman in nearly 70 years

Lisa Montgomery, 52, was executed by lethal injection at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, and pronounced dead at 1:31 a.m. Wednesday. Montgomery was the first woman to be executed by the federal government since 1953 and was the only woman on death row. The Supreme Court denied a last-ditch effort late Tuesday by […]

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