U.S. executes Lisa Montgomery, only woman on federal death row By (0) Lisa Montgomery was executed by lethal injection early Wednesday at U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind. Photo by Wyandotte County Sheriff's Department/EPA-EFE Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, was executed by lethal injection early Wednesday for the 2004 killing of a pregnant woman. Montgomery, 52, was pronounced dead at 1:31 a.m. at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., making her the first person executed by the federal government in 2021 and the 11th since the Trump administration resumed federal executions following a 17-year-hiatus last year.