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It's been nearly 70 years since the United States executed a woman. Bonnie Brown Heady was put to death in a gas chamber on Dec. 18,1953 after pleading guilty to her role in the kidnapping and murder of Bobby Greenlease, the 6-year-old son of a multi-millionaire auto dealer in Kansas City, Missouri.  Her co-conspirator, Carl Hall, who police say shot the child, was also executed.  Sixty-seven years later, the federal government plans to execute another woman. Lisa Montgomery was convicted of killing pregnant 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett in a northwest Missouri town in December 2004. ...

Friend of slain pregnant woman, Bobbie Jo Stinnett, hopes for closure amid uncertain execution Lisa Montgomery stay of execution latest and last updated 2021-01-12 19:11:23-05 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One of Bobbie Jo Stinnett's friends isn't interested in anything her convicted killer, Lisa Montgomery, has to say. On Tuesday, as the U.S. Supreme Court weighed multiple stay-of-execution orders from lower courts, Stinnett's friend said that she hoped family and other friends would find peace and closure with Montgomery's execution. Stinnett was eight months pregnant when Montgomery strangled...

Lisa Montgomery, who killed a pregnant woman by strangling and cutting the unborn baby from her womb, was executed by lethal injection at a federal prison in Indiana before dawn Wednesday.

Lisa Montgomery was convicted of killing pregnant 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett in a northwest Missouri town in December 2004. Montgomery strangled Stinnett to death, cut open her abdomen with a kitchen knife and removed the fetus, which survived.