America carries out first execution of woman in 7 decades

SANAA, Oct. 17 (YPA) –  The US Department of Justice announced on Friday that it had set December 8 as the date for the implementation of the first judgment issued by a federal court to execute a woman in nearly 70 years.

“Lisa Montgomery, convicted of strangling a pregnant woman in Missouri in 2004, will be executed by lethal injection at Terre Haute Correctional Facility, Indiana,” the ministry said in a statement.

The ministry also set the date for the execution of another inmate, Brandon Bernard, on December 10, who was convicted of “committing a heinous murder 13 years ago”.

These two executions are the eighth and ninth carried out by the federal government in 2020, as US President Donald Trump’s administration ended an unofficial 17-year hiatus in carrying out federal executions, after it announced last year that “the Prisons Office is switching to one new drug protocol for lethal injection. It is a combination of three drugs that were last used in 2003. ”

The Death Penalty Information Center says, “The last woman executed by federal court decision was Bonnie Heidi, who was placed in a Missouri gas chamber in 1953.”