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US executes first woman on federal death row in nearly seven decades
The US Government has executed convicted murderer Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, after the Supreme Court overturned a stay on her death sentence.
Key points:
- US federal executions resumed in July under Mr Trump after a 17-year pause
- Lisa Montgomery’s execution was delayed after a judge found she did not understand she was to be put to death
- The executions of two men have been delayed due to them testing positive for COVID-19
Montgomery’s death marks the first time federal authorities have executed a female prisoner since 1953.
Challenges were fought across multiple federal courts on whether to allow execution of the 52-year-old who had been scheduled to be killed by lethal injections of pentobarbital, a powerful…
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