Supreme Court Grants federal execution of Lisa Montgomery | Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2021 schedule
Supreme Court Grants federal execution of Lisa Montgomery | Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2021 schedule
January 13, 2021 Author : ch799
An order has been issued by the Supreme Court authorizing the execution of the last woman on
federal death row to continue.
Before midnight on Tuesday, the order enables the execution of Lisa Montgomery to continue,
lifting the stay of execution of a lower court and refusing a request from the attorneys of
Montgomery for another visit.
At the Federal Correctional Complex in Indiana, Montgomery's execution had been set for
Tuesday. It was not immediately clear how fast the execution, following the decision, would
start early on Wednesday.
The Supreme Court's decision eliminates the only legal hurdles to the execution that the
lawyers of Montgomery had hoped to postpone until Joe Biden, a death penalty opponent, was
inaugurated.
In Missouri in 2004, Montgomery, from Kansas, murdered expectant mother, Bobbie Jo Stinnett
before taking the baby out of Stinnett's womb and trying to carry the infant off.
In the decision on Tuesday night, the three liberal justices of the Supreme Court—Stephen
Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan—dissented, saying they would grant the stay
requested by Montgomery's lawyers.