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'Womb raider' Lisa Montgomery who cut baby out of victim has execution delayed till after Biden's inauguration

For those unversed with Montgomery's grim tale, in 2004, she murdered a 23-year-old dog breeder named Bobbie Jo Stinnett who was eight months pregnant and cut her baby from her
PUBLISHED DEC 27, 2020
(Wyandotte County Sheriff's Department)
(Wyandotte County Sheriff's Department)

Lisa Montgomery, infamously known as the "womb raider", has had her execution delayed as she fights the death penalty. The 52-year-old Montogomery, who cut a baby from her victim's womb, is currently locked up at the all-female Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, where she remains the only woman on federal death row.

However, her execution has been delayed by a federal judge who ruled that the Justice Department had unlawfully set her execution date while disregarding scheduling rules. This delay might now compel the Trump administration to schedule it to occur after President-elect Joe Biden takes office, the Associated Press reported.  

She had earlier been put to death on December 8 at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. Her attorneys were diagnosed with Covid-19 and the US District Court Judge Randolph Moss delayed her execution until after January 1, 2021, to give them enough time to prepare a clemency application. Later, the Bureau Of Prisons moved her execution to January 12.

However, the law states that death-row inmates must be notified at least 20 days prior to the execution, according to the Justice Department guidelines. The order that was set for the January 12 execution date was vacated as the Bureau Of Prisons did not adhere to scheduling guidelines. As the execution has been ordered to not take place till at least January 1, or at least 20 days later, it is expected to not take place till Biden's inauguration on January 20. 

Biden's press secretary TJ Ducklo had told AP that the president-elect “opposes the death penalty now and in the future.”

For those unversed with Montgomery's grim tale, in 2004, she murdered a 23-year-old dog breeder named Bobbie Jo Stinnett who was eight months pregnant and cut her baby from her, according to our earlier report. Montgomery, who was 36 at the time, had met Stinnett online and pretended to be a pregnant woman named "Darlene Fischer” to bond with her.

She had looked up home births and how to perform cesarean sections online before the attack. The baby survived and Montgomery even tried to pass her off as her own. Montgomery was arrested the very next day.  The baby, named Victoria Jo by her dad, Zeb, has now turned 16.

"There was blood everywhere. She was laying on the floor," Stinnett's mom, Becky Harper, tearfully said at Montgomery's trial. "It looked like she exploded all over the place." Lawyers for Montgomery have previously argued their client "suffered repeated sexual and physical abuse since childhood."

The Justice Department had resumed federal executions this year after a 17-year hiatus and has put more people to death more people than in the last 50 years.
Montgomery is set to become the first female executed by the federal government in 67 years. The last woman to be federally executed was Bonnie Heady, who died in a gas chamber in Missouri in 1953. Lisa's family is begging for her to be spared.

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