Lisa Montgomery was set to be executed on December 8 after being convicted in 2004 of strangling a Missouri woman who was eight months pregnant, excising the baby, and kidnapping it. The baby survived.
The Justice Department had said it had tried to move Montgomery’s execution date to Jan. 12, but DC District Court Judge Randy Moss wrote on Thursday that it did not follow the correct timeline under the previous court order, leading to the rescheduling of the execution date. was delayed. further.
“The court decision requires the government to follow the law by not setting a date of execution for Lisa Montgomery while the execution is delayed,” Sandra Babcock, one of Montgomery’s attorneys, said in a statement Thursday. Given the severity of Ms. Montgomery’s mental illness, the sexual and physical torture she endured throughout her life, and the connection between her trauma and the facts of her crime, we appeal to President (Donald) Trump for her mercy. to donate and commute. Her sentence to life imprisonment. “
Biden has pledged to abolish the federal death penalty and urge states to stop seeking death sentences.