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Judge Patrick Hanlon granted the stay late Monday, citing the need to determine Lisa Montgomery's mental competence.
A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday halted this week's executions of two inmates who were diagnosed with COVID-19, the last two federal executions scheduled under U.S. President Donald Trump.
First US execution of female inmate in 67 years halted AP FILE - This undated file image provided by Attorneys for Lisa Montgomery shows Lisa Montgomery. Montgomery who In 2004, killed a pregnant woman, cut a baby from her womb and then passed off the newborn as her own is set to die for the crime. Lisa Montgomery would be the first woman executed by the federal government in some six decades if her execution happens as scheduled on Jan. 12, 2021, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Ind. (Attorneys for Lisa Montgomery via AP) By: HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, Associat...
Montgomery, 52, was executed by lethal injection at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute. Her time of death was 1:31 a.m.