“The government should stop its relentless efforts to end her life,” VerGrow continued. A group of appeals court judges reinstated the January 12 execution date for Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row https://t.co/54gJGh0hOL VerGow added that Montgomery’s legal team would formally ask the court to reconsider their reinstatement of the execution, according to CNN. In 2004, Montgomery murdered Bobbie Jo Stinnett, a 23-year-old pregnant woman, by strangling her with a rope, according to The AP. Using a kitchen knife, she then cut the baby from Stinnett’s womb and tried to pass the child off as her own.