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Mentally ill woman executed as Trump continues federal killing spree In a continuation of Donald Trump’s cruel killing spree, Lisa Montgomery, 52, a woman convicted for the murder a pregnant woman in 2004 and the kidnapping of her premature baby, was executed early January 13 and pronounced dead at 1:31 a.m. Montgomery’s execution followed US Supreme Court rulings in four separate cases allowing it to go forward. Montgomery became the eleventh person to be executed following the Trump administration’s ending of a 17-year de facto moratorium on federal executions. Lisa Montgomery (Photo:...

Lisa Montgomery, 52, died after receiving the lethal injection at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana shortly after the Supreme Court ruled the execution could go forward.

The U.S. government has carried out its first execution of a female inmate in nearly seven decades.

Montgomery, 52, was executed by lethal injection at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, in the early hours of January 13.

Demonstrators in in Terre Haute, Ind., gather to protest the execution of Lisa Montgomery on Jan. 12. She was put to death by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute soon after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a hold on her execution at 1:31 a.m. (EST). She was the first woman to be put to death in federal prison since 1953. (CNS photo/Bryan Woolston, Reuters) The federal death penalty will almost certainly be suspended under President Biden, and great strides have been made to reduce the use of the death penalty at the state level. But the work of putting an end to capital punishm...