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    [quote author=Peavey link=topic=10355.msg570607#msg570607 date=1192364207]
    And far more credible of a source than wikipedia.  Link it?
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    Woman found guilty of killing pregnant mother
    Victim’s fetus was cut from her body; defense said suspect was delusional

    Anonymous / AP Lisa Montgomery was found guilty of cutting a pregnant woman's baby from her womb and then passing off the child as her own.

    Updated: 5:32 p.m. MT Oct 22, 2007
    KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A woman whose attorneys had argued that she was suffering from delusions when she killed an expectant mother, cut the baby from her womb and took the infant home was convicted Monday.

    Jurors convicted Lisa Montgomery, 39, of kidnapping resulting in death in the 2004 attack on 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett in the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore.

    The jury deliberated for about four hours before rejecting Montgomery’s insanity defense. The jury could have acquitted her outright or found her not guilty by reason of insanity. Prosecutors said they plan to seek the death penalty.

    After the verdict was read, Montgomery dried her eyes and one of her attorneys patted her back to console her.

    Stinnett’s husband, Zeb, and Montgomery’s husband, Kevin, showed no emotion.

    Defense attorneys claimed Montgomery was suffering from pseudocyesis, which causes a woman to falsely believe she is pregnant and exhibit outward signs of pregnancy.

    Defense argued she was abused as a child
    They portrayed her as a victim of severe mental illness whose delusion of being pregnant was being threatened, causing her to enter a dreamlike state when the killing took place.

    They also argued that she had post-traumatic stress disorder brought on by mental, physical and sexual abuse in her childhood.

    But during closing arguments, federal prosecutor Roseann Ketchmark called the pseudocyesis claim “voodoo science.”

    She said Montgomery was driven by fear because she believed her ex-husband, Carl Boman, would expose that she was lying about being pregnant and use it against her as he sought custody of two of the couple’s four children. A custody hearing had been set for January 2005.

    “It’s not pseudocyesis or post-traumatic stress disorder,” Ketchmark said. “And even if you wrap them up and put delusions around them, it’s not insanity.”

    Ketchmark said Montgomery plotted the slaying and abduction and took pains to cover up that planning after she was caught.

    “She knows she’s not pregnant,” the prosecutor said. “It’s no delusion. It’s deceit and manipulation.”

    Falsely claimed multiple pregnancies
    Montgomery had undergone a tubal ligation in 1990 after the birth of her fourth child. But soon after, she began falsely reporting a series of pregnancies. In 2004, she claimed to be due in mid-December.

    Boman had become suspicious of her latest pregnancy claim and threatened to use it against her as he sought custody of two of the couple’s four children. A custody hearing had been set for January 2005.


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    Montgomery’s mother and sister also had been telling Montgomery’s husband and his parents that it was impossible for her to carry a child.

    As Montgomery’s purported Dec. 13, 2004, due date approached, she began conducting searches on the Internet about Stinnett and researching different aspects of child birth. The defense portrayed those efforts as evidence that she believed she was pregnant. The prosecution called them proof of premeditation.

    Prosecutors said Montgomery used a rope to choke Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant. But Stinnett was conscious and trying to defend herself as Montgomery used a kitchen knife to cut the baby girl from the womb, prosecutors said.

    Montgomery was arrested the day after the killing after spending the morning showing off the infant as her own in her hometown of Melvern, Kan.

    Montgomery’s attorneys and a spokesman for Stinnett’s family declined to comment. Stinnett’s baby is living with her family.

    “The only good thing that comes from this tragedy is that little Victoria is a healthy baby and is reunited with her family,” U.S. Attorney John F. Wood said.

    After initially denying the crime, Montgomery told investigators she had taken a knife, rope and umbilical cord clamp with her to Stinnett’s home. Montgomery said she had thought she was leaving the home when “something out of character” happened and “then this took place.”

    Attorneys are to start arguing Wednesday whether Montgomery deserves the death penalty.
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    But Stinnett was conscious and trying to defend herself as Montgomery used a kitchen knife to cut the baby girl from the womb, prosecutors said.

    UGH! completely unthinkable! it gets said so many times, but this sick bitch deserves at least of 1000 yrs+ of sheer torture.  I couldnt imagine that the last thing i experience is a fucking nut cutting open my belly for my baby.  Death or Jail is too good for this woman. ugh.

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    Jurors Weep in Stolen Baby Case
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    KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Several jurors wept as they listened to a woman make a frantic 911 call after finding her pregnant daughter dead and the fetus no longer in her womb.

    "It's like she exploded or something," a sobbing Becky Harper told the dispatcher in a recording played Wednesday during the penalty phase of Lisa Montgomery's trial.

    On Thursday, jurors were expected to begin deliberations on whether Montgomery deserves to die or spend the rest of her life in prison for the gruesome slaying of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, who was killed Dec. 16, 2004, in the pregnant woman's home in the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore.

    Federal prosecutors played the 911 tape to support their contention that Montgomery should be put to death. Her attorneys argue that she should get life in prison without parole — the only other punishment the jury can choose — because physical and sexual abuse she suffered as a child left her mentally ill.

    http://www.ajc.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/National/Pregnant_Woman_Slain.html

    How could she not get anything but the Death Penalty?
    To think of the poor mother to go in and find her daughter cut open.  How horrible.

    RIP Bobbie Joe, sorry you had to suffer

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    [quote author=Onthedarkside link=topic=10355.msg583575#msg583575 date=1193316699]
    Jurors Weep in Stolen Baby Case
    Associated Press Writer

    KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Several jurors wept as they listened to a woman make a frantic 911 call after finding her pregnant daughter dead and the fetus no longer in her womb.

    "It's like she exploded or something," a sobbing Becky Harper told the dispatcher in a recording played Wednesday during the penalty phase of Lisa Montgomery's trial.

    On Thursday, jurors were expected to begin deliberations on whether Montgomery deserves to die or spend the rest of her life in prison for the gruesome slaying of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, who was killed Dec. 16, 2004, in the pregnant woman's home in the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore.

    Federal prosecutors played the 911 tape to support their contention that Montgomery should be put to death. Her attorneys argue that she should get life in prison without parole — the only other punishment the jury can choose — because physical and sexual abuse she suffered as a child left her mentally ill.

    http://www.ajc.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/National/Pregnant_Woman_Slain.html

    How could she not get anything but the Death Penalty?
    To think of the poor mother to go in and find her daughter cut open.  How horrible.

    RIP Bobbie Joe, sorry you had to suffer
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    This IS sad, and very scary. I just moved to Missouri. I don't think I will live here very long.

    RIP Bobbie Joe

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    oh GOD! i didnt even think of what it must have been like to discover that scene! UGH.. SO MANY victims in this crime.  WHat the Fuck is wrong with this sick bitch??
    she should should spend 23 hours a day tied by her neck to a rope that is just 2 inches off the ground in the jail house bathroom - everytime anyone goes in there - they could kick, piss or shit on her - and she could ALMOST most her head but not so much.  The one hour that she is off the rope is only to treat her or feed her so she could be healthy and live to be at least 100 yrs old.
    someone put me in that jury, ill make it so she WANTS to die.

    ON a related subject... anyone see E!'s "The Soup", they had a clip of Nancy Grace:
    When a caller called in to Nancy Grace and said "Hi Nancy, I wanted to say congradulations on being pregnant and I just want to add that this wont happen again... to you..ever"
    ahahahaha Nancy Grace almost tried to ignore that but she couldnt - it was amusing.

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    hooo-fucking-ray.  i would love to be the one that kills her sorry ass.  you know, like cutting that cold heart out of her chest while she is conscious.

    Jury: Woman should die for fatal fetus-snatchingStory Highlights
    NEW: Judge must abide by jury's decision, prosecutor says

    Lisa Montgomery, 39, convicted of kidnapping resulting in death of woman

    Bobbie Jo Stinnett died after the attack; Montgomery took Stinnett's baby

    Prosecutors: Mother still conscious when Montgomery cut baby from womb

    KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) -- A jury on Friday decided that a woman convicted of killing an expectant mother and cutting her baby from her womb should receive the death penalty.


    Lisa Montgomery wiped tears from her eyes as a jury said she should get the death penalty.

    Jurors deliberated for more than five hours before recommending the sentence for Lisa Montgomery.

    Prosecutors say a judge will sentence Montgomery, but is obligated to abide by the jury's recommendation.

    Montgomery, 39, was convicted Monday of kidnapping and killing Bobbie Jo Stinnett on December 16, 2004, in the victim's home in the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore. She was arrested the next day in Melvern, Kansas, where she was showing off the newborn as her own.

    Montgomery wiped her eyes with a tissue as the jury announced its sentencing decision. Her attorney, Fred Duchardt, had his hand on her shoulder.

    Prosecutors argued that Stinnett's killing and mutilation is the kind of crime for which capital punishment is intended.

    Showing jurors photos of the bloody crime scene, the prosecution told jurors Thursday that Montgomery deserves to die because of the heinousness of her crime, and because computer evidence -- including Internet searches on performing Caesareans -- shows the crime was premeditated.

    Federal prosecutor Roseann Ketchmark said Montgomery had violated Stinnett in the "most wicked way possible," then failed to seek medical attention for the infant, who was four weeks shy of her due date.

    Defense attorney Fred Duchardt, who claims sexual abuse during Montgomery's childhood led to mental illness, asked the jury to spare his client's life. He said emotional abuse from her mother and sexual abuse from her stepfather "killed Lisa's soul."

    "I'm not ashamed to ask you all for mercy," Duchardt told the jury. "I ask for it on behalf of Lisa and all the people who love her."

    http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/10/26/pregnant.slaying.ap/index.html

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    [quote author=ZoMyGoddess! link=topic=10355.msg584447#msg584447 date=1193356508]
    oh GOD! i didnt even think of what it must have been like to discover that scene! UGH.. SO MANY victims in this crime.  WHat the Fuck is wrong with this sick bitch??
    she should should spend 23 hours a day tied by her neck to a rope that is just 2 inches off the ground in the jail house bathroom - everytime anyone goes in there - they could kick, piss or shit on her - and she could ALMOST most her head but not so much.  The one hour that she is off the rope is only to treat her or feed her so she could be healthy and live to be at least 100 yrs old.
    someone put me in that jury, ill make it so she WANTS to die.

    ON a related subject... anyone see E!'s "The Soup", they had a clip of Nancy Grace:
    When a caller called in to Nancy Grace and said "Hi Nancy, I wanted to say congradulations on being pregnant and I just want to add that this wont happen again... to you..ever"
    ahahahaha Nancy Grace almost tried to ignore that but she couldnt - it was amusing.
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    hooo-fucking-ray.  i would love to be the one that kills her sorry ass.  you know, like cutting that cold heart out of her chest while she is conscious.

    Jury: Woman should die for fatal fetus-snatchingStory Highlights
    NEW: Judge must abide by jury's decision, prosecutor says

    Lisa Montgomery, 39, convicted of kidnapping resulting in death of woman

    Bobbie Jo Stinnett died after the attack; Montgomery took Stinnett's baby

    Prosecutors: Mother still conscious when Montgomery cut baby from womb

    KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) -- A jury on Friday decided that a woman convicted of killing an expectant mother and cutting her baby from her womb should receive the death penalty.


    Lisa Montgomery wiped tears from her eyes as a jury said she should get the death penalty.

    Jurors deliberated for more than five hours before recommending the sentence for Lisa Montgomery.

    Prosecutors say a judge will sentence Montgomery, but is obligated to abide by the jury's recommendation.

    Montgomery, 39, was convicted Monday of kidnapping and killing Bobbie Jo Stinnett on December 16, 2004, in the victim's home in the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore. She was arrested the next day in Melvern, Kansas, where she was showing off the newborn as her own.

    Montgomery wiped her eyes with a tissue as the jury announced its sentencing decision. Her attorney, Fred Duchardt, had his hand on her shoulder.

    Prosecutors argued that Stinnett's killing and mutilation is the kind of crime for which capital punishment is intended.

    Showing jurors photos of the bloody crime scene, the prosecution told jurors Thursday that Montgomery deserves to die because of the heinousness of her crime, and because computer evidence -- including Internet searches on performing Caesareans -- shows the crime was premeditated.

    Federal prosecutor Roseann Ketchmark said Montgomery had violated Stinnett in the "most wicked way possible," then failed to seek medical attention for the infant, who was four weeks shy of her due date.

    Defense attorney Fred Duchardt, who claims sexual abuse during Montgomery's childhood led to mental illness, asked the jury to spare his client's life. He said emotional abuse from her mother and sexual abuse from her stepfather "killed Lisa's soul."

    "I'm not ashamed to ask you all for mercy," Duchardt told the jury. "I ask for it on behalf of Lisa and all the people who love her."

    http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/10/26/pregnant.slaying.ap/index.html

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    *happy dance*

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    [quote author=MAVEN link=topic=10355.msg585947#msg585947 date=1193424855]
    hooo-fucking-ray.  i would love to be the one that kills her sorry ass.  you know, like cutting that cold heart out of her chest while she is conscious.

    Jury: Woman should die for fatal fetus-snatchingStory Highlights
    NEW: Judge must abide by jury's decision, prosecutor says

    Lisa Montgomery, 39, convicted of kidnapping resulting in death of woman

    Bobbie Jo Stinnett died after the attack; Montgomery took Stinnett's baby

    Prosecutors: Mother still conscious when Montgomery cut baby from womb

    KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) -- A jury on Friday decided that a woman convicted of killing an expectant mother and cutting her baby from her womb should receive the death penalty.


    Lisa Montgomery wiped tears from her eyes as a jury said she should get the death penalty.

    Jurors deliberated for more than five hours before recommending the sentence for Lisa Montgomery.

    Prosecutors say a judge will sentence Montgomery, but is obligated to abide by the jury's recommendation.

    Montgomery, 39, was convicted Monday of kidnapping and killing Bobbie Jo Stinnett on December 16, 2004, in the victim's home in the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore. She was arrested the next day in Melvern, Kansas, where she was showing off the newborn as her own.

    Montgomery wiped her eyes with a tissue as the jury announced its sentencing decision. Her attorney, Fred Duchardt, had his hand on her shoulder.

    Prosecutors argued that Stinnett's killing and mutilation is the kind of crime for which capital punishment is intended.

    Showing jurors photos of the bloody crime scene, the prosecution told jurors Thursday that Montgomery deserves to die because of the heinousness of her crime, and because computer evidence -- including Internet searches on performing Caesareans -- shows the crime was premeditated.

    Federal prosecutor Roseann Ketchmark said Montgomery had violated Stinnett in the "most wicked way possible," then failed to seek medical attention for the infant, who was four weeks shy of her due date.

    Defense attorney Fred Duchardt, who claims sexual abuse during Montgomery's childhood led to mental illness, asked the jury to spare his client's life. He said emotional abuse from her mother and sexual abuse from her stepfather "killed Lisa's soul."

    "I'm not ashamed to ask you all for mercy," Duchardt told the jury. "I ask for it on behalf of Lisa and all the people who love her."

    http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/10/26/pregnant.slaying.ap/index.html

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    I'm never sure how I feel about the death penalty.  In this case I think it is justified though.  I can't imagine how that poor woman must have felt whilst being attacked. 

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    Woman gets death in mother-to-be murder
    Judge hands down sentence in case where baby was cut from womb
    The Associated Press
    updated 10:07 a.m. MT, Fri., April. 4, 2008
    KANSAS CITY, Missouri - A Missouri woman has been sentenced to death for killing a mother-to-be and cutting the baby from her womb.

    Judge Gary Fenner handed down the sentence after a jury recommended the death penalty for Lisa Montgomery in the slaying of Bobbie Jo Stinnett.

    The 39-year-old from Melvern was convicted in October of kidnapping resulting in death in the Dec. 16, 2004, killing of Stinnett. Montgomery was arrested at her farmhouse a day after showing off Stinnett's baby as her own.


    © 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
    URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23956144/

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    Re: Baby-cut-from-womb suspect's husband said he did not know his wife faked 3 p

    [quote author=puzzld link=topic=10355.msg796201#msg796201 date=1207331667]
    Woman gets death in mother-to-be murder
    Judge hands down sentence in case where baby was cut from womb
    The Associated Press
    updated 10:07 a.m. MT, Fri., April. 4, 2008
    KANSAS CITY, Missouri - A Missouri woman has been sentenced to death for killing a mother-to-be and cutting the baby from her womb.

    Judge Gary Fenner handed down the sentence after a jury recommended the death penalty for Lisa Montgomery in the slaying of Bobbie Jo Stinnett.

    The 39-year-old from Melvern was convicted in October of kidnapping resulting in death in the Dec. 16, 2004, killing of Stinnett. Montgomery was arrested at her farmhouse a day after showing off Stinnett's baby as her own.


    © 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
    URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23956144/


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    oops!!!  :lol:

    The crime rate in that town is absolutely unbelievable!!! This story is just as bad as the Ken McElroy case from Skidmore.
    I will NEVER set foot in that state again.

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    Hahah!

    God, what a horrible story. Thank goodness the baby is alive and well, at least. :(

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    Quote Originally Posted by raisedbywolves View Post
    I had forgotten about this case, but did some research on it after seeing that her execution had been set. It's hard for me to believe that the baby would be almost 16.
    The baby is alive! I wonder how she's doing now too.

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    Well, Lisa, I hope it was worth it.

    No one cares if you found Jesus. No one cares that you're "sorry."

    No one gives a fuck for any remorse you may show.

    You killed a mom to be, and damn near took the baby's life too.


    I hope you fucking suffer until your execution, and that your afterlife is a never ending series of the kind of evil you visited on Bobbie Jo.


    You deserve nothing less.
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    I am not for the death penalty. I remember this case, but the death penalty won't bring back a murdered person. The death penalty is punitive and see it as state sanctioned revenge.

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    I'm not a proponent of the death penalty either, but somehow this one seems appropriate.
    You are talking to a woman who has laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom and chuckled at catastrophe.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Queena View Post
    I am not for the death penalty. I remember this case, but the death penalty won't bring back a murdered person. The death penalty is punitive and see it as state sanctioned revenge.
    I understand this, completely.

    Part of me wants for these people to suffer the indignance of a long life wasted in prison, and part of me wants instant, final justice for those we can't bring back.

    It's obvious even from the photos that Lisa Montgomery has mental issues, and that's got to be dealt with here, but it won't. And we'll likely see more of these fucked up
    cases as the years roll on because hey, who gives a fuck about mental illness and the havoc that it can wreak on the sufferer or on society at large? Welcome to the United States of
    no one gives a shit about you.

    I'm not quite as vehement in my hatred with women perpetrators as I am/have been with males. It's obvious to me that when men commit crimes, they are, in many cases, horrific souls who should be put down and forgotten. Women, on the other hand, like Lisa, do these horrific things because they're mentally ill and got little or no treatment. And being a woman means you aren't listened to, anyway, when it comes to medical matters, far too often. Doctors think "it's all in your head", or some other bullshit, so they don't bother treating you. I don't understand that mindset, and I want to throat punch people who treat others with such reckless disregard.
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    Bobbie Jo was awake when the baby was cut out? Jesus Christ I did not know that. How horrible.

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    #SCOTUS has voted 6-3 to vacate the D.C. Circuit stay of execution for #LisaMontgomery.
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    https://twitter.com/RDunhamDPIC/stat...27822431272968

    The federal government is preparing to execute #LisaMontgomery. Because it is past midnight, her scheduled execution date has passed and if it complies with the law (which is not a given), the Bureau of Prisons is required to issue a new execution notice. @DPInfoCtr
    #deathpenalty

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    BREAKING: The media witnesses have been moved to the execution area. #LisaMontgomery @KSNTNews

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    The United States Government just killed a mentally ill child sex trafficking victim. Jesus, forgive us. #LisaMontgomery @DeathPenaltyWW
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    ‘Womb raider’ Lisa Montgomery is first woman executed in US since 1953

    https://nypost.com/2021/01/13/lisa-m...us-since-1953/

    TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — A Kansas woman was executed Tuesday for strangling an expectant mother in Missouri and cutting the baby from her womb, the first time in nearly seven decades that the U.S. government has put to death a female inmate.

    Lisa Montgomery, 52, was pronounced dead at 1:31 a.m. Wednesday after receiving a lethal injection at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. She was the 11th prisoner to receive a lethal injection there since July when President Donald Trump, an ardent supporter of capital punishment, resumed federal executions following 17 years without one.

    “The craven bloodlust of a failed administration was on full display tonight,” Montgomery’s attorney, Kelley Henry said in a statement. “Everyone who participated in the execution of Lisa Montgomery should feel shame.”

    “The government stopped at nothing in its zeal to kill this damaged and delusional woman,” Henry said. “Lisa Montgomery’s execution was far from justice.”

    It came after hours of legal wrangling before the Supreme Court cleared the way for the execution to move forward. Montgomery was the first of the final three federal inmates scheduled to die before next week’s inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, who is expected to discontinue federal executions.

    But a federal judge for the District of Columbia halted the scheduled executions later this week of Corey Johnson and Dustin Higgs in a ruling Tuesday. Johnson, convicted of killing seven people related to his drug trafficking in Virginia, and Higgs, convicted of ordering the murders of three women in Maryland, both tested positive for COVID-19 last month.

    Montgomery killed 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett in the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore in 2004. She used a rope to strangle Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant, and then cut the baby girl from the womb with a kitchen knife. Montgomery took the child with her and attempted to pass the girl off as her own.

    An appeals court granted Montgomery a stay of execution Tuesday, shortly after another appeals court lifted an Indiana judge’s ruling that found she was likely mentally ill and couldn’t comprehend she would be put to death. But both appeals were lifted, allowing the execution of the only female on federal death row to go forward.

    One of Montgomery’s lawyers, Kelley Henry, told The Associated Press Tuesday morning that her client arrived at the Terre Haute facility late Monday night from a Texas prison and that, because there are no facilities for female inmates, she was being kept in a cell in the execution-chamber building itself.

    “I don’t believe she has any rational comprehension of what’s going on at all,” Henry said.

    Montgomery has done needle-point in prison, making gloves, hats and other knitted items as gifts for her lawyers and others, Henry said. She hasn’t been able to continue that hobby or read since her glasses were taken away from her out of concern she could commit suicide.

    “All of her coping mechanisms were taken away from her when they locked her down” in October when she was informed she had an execution date, Henry said.

    Montgomery’s legal team says she suffered “sexual torture,” including gang rapes, as a child, permanently scarring her emotionally and exacerbating mental-health issues that ran in her family.

    At trial, prosecutors accused Montgomery of faking mental illness, noting that her killing of Stinnett was premeditated and included meticulous planning, including online research on how to perform a C-section.

    Henry balked at that idea, citing extensive testing and brain scans that supported the diagnosis of mental illness.

    “You can’t fake brain scans that show the brain damage,” she said.

    Henry said the issue at the core of the legal arguments are not whether she knew the killing was wrong in 2004 but whether she fully grasps why she is slated to be executed now.

    In his ruling on a stay, U.S. District Judge James Patrick Hanlon in Terre Haute cited defense experts who alleged Montgomery suffered from depression, borderline personality disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.

    Montgomery, the judge wrote, also suffered around the time of the killing from an extremely rare condition called pseudocyesis in which a woman’s false belief she is pregnant triggers hormonal and physical changes as if she were actually pregnant.

    Montgomery also experiences delusions and hallucinations, believing God spoke with her through connect-the-dot puzzles, the judge said, citing defense experts.

    “The record before the Court contains ample evidence that Ms. Montgomery’s current mental state is so divorced from reality that she cannot rationally understand the government’s rationale for her execution,” the judge’ said.

    The government has acknowledged Montgomery’s mental issues but disputes that she can’t comprehend that she is scheduled for execution for killing another person because of them.

    Details of the crime at times left jurors in tears during her trial.

    Prosecutors told the jury Montgomery drove about 170 miles (274 kilometers) from her Melvern, Kansas, farmhouse to the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore under the guise of adopting a rat terrier puppy from Stinnett. She strangled Stinnett performing a crude cesarean and fleeing with the baby.

    Prosecutors said Stinnett regained consciousness and tried to defend herself as Montgomery cut the baby girl from her womb. Later that day, Montgomery called her husband to pick her up in the parking lot of a Long John Silver’s in Topeka, Kansas, telling him she had delivered the baby earlier in the day at a nearby birthing center.

    Montgomery was arrested the next day after showing off the premature infant, Victoria Jo, who is now 16 years old and hasn’t spoken publicly about the tragedy.

    Prosecutors said the motive was that Montgomery’s ex-husband knew she had undergone a tubal ligation that made her sterile and planned to reveal she was lying about being pregnant in an effort to get custody of two of their four children. Needing a baby before a fast-approaching court date, Montgomery turned her focus on Stinnett, whom she had met at dog shows.

    Anti-death penalty groups said Trump was pushing for executions prior to the November election in a cynical bid to burnish a reputation as a law-and-order leader.

    The last woman executed by the federal government was Bonnie Brown Heady on Dec. 18, 1953, for the kidnapping and murder of a 6-year-old boy in Missouri.

    The last woman executed by a state was Kelly Gissendaner, 47, on Sept. 30, 2015, in Georgia. She was convicted of murder in the 1997 slaying of her husband after she conspired with her lover, who stabbed Douglas Gissendaner to death.

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