A judge has temporarily stopped the U.S. government’s plans Tuesday to carry out the first federal execution of a female inmate in nearly seven decades.
A Kansas woman was executed Wednesday for strangling an expectant mother in Missouri and cutting the baby from her womb, the first time in nearly seven decades that the U.S. government has put to death a female inmate.
Mental health could halt execution of killer who cut baby from womb
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MARYVILLE, MO - DECEMBER 20: A police line still remains outside the home of Zeb and Bobbi Jo Stinnett December 20, 2004 in Skidmore, Missouri. Bobbi Jo was murdered December 16, 2004 and her unborn baby Victoria Jo Stinnett cut from her womb and tra
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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - A judge has temporarily stopped the U.S. government’s plans Tuesday to carry out the first federal execution of a female inmate in nearly seven decades, finding that the Kansas woman who killed an expectant mother, cut the baby from her womb and tried to pass off the newborn as her own was likely mentally ill and couldn’t comprehend she would be put to death.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) A Kansas woman was executed Wednesday for strangling an expectant mother in Missouri and cutting the baby from her womb, the first time in nearly seven decades that the.