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This file handout photo provided by the Wyandotte County Sheriff's Department shows death row inmate Lisa Montgomery appears in a booking photo released 20 December 2004 in Kansas City, Kansas. Picture: Wyandotte County Sheriff's Department/AFP.

Lisa montgomery

Expectant mother's killer becomes US's 1st federal execution of woman in decades

By AFP

The US Justice Department said Lisa Montgomery, 52, was pronounced dead at 1:31 am Eastern Time at a penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.

  • In this handout photo provided by the Wyandotte County Sheriff's Department, Lisa Montgomery appears in a booking photo released 20 December 2004 in Kansas City, Kansas. Montgomery, of Melvern, Kansas, murdered the pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett, cutting the fetus from her body, and claiming the live baby as her own. Picture: AFP.

    US set to execute woman who cut newborn from mother's womb

    Sixteen years on, the United States is preparing to execute her, and experts are still studying the case so they can understand what prompts such a crime -- and how to prevent it in future.

    516 days ago
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