Lisa Montgomery

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Lisa Montgomery, 2013

Lisa Marie Montgomery (* 27. February 1968 in Melvern , Kansas ; † 13. January 2021 in Terre Haute , Indiana ) was a US citizen who in 2007 as a murderer was convicted and executed the 2,021th Her guilty responsibility was controversial due to various mental illnesses .

Life and deed

Lisa Montgomery was sexually abused for years in her childhood and adolescence. Her parents were alcoholics. At the age of 18 she married her stepbrother and had four children with him in quick succession. Then she was sterilized. The couple divorced in 1998 and they married a second time in 2000.

On December 16, 2004, Lisa Montgomery murdered 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett, who was expecting her first child and was eight months pregnant. She visited them on the pretext of wanting to buy a dog from their breeding, and Stinnett cut the baby out of the belly. The day after the crime, she was arrested in Skidmore, Missouri, about 250 kilometers from the crime scene. The kidnapped baby survived the act.

Trial and the death penalty

Montgomery confessed and was sentenced to death in 2007. Montgomery was diagnosed with bipolar disorder while in custody . She also suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder , anxiety and depression, as well as psychoses , dissociations and amnesia .

In 2020, the US Department of Justice ruled in her case, like twelve other death row inmates in US federal prisons, that the executions should be carried out. Montgomery, who was 52 at the time, was due to be executed on January 12, 2021. An Indiana state court suspended enforcement because Montgomery was in such poor mental health that she could not understand the reason for a death sentence. The reports before the court showed, according to the presiding judge, that Montgomery had been mentally damaged since birth and that she was currently in a state of mental emergency.

In early 2021, Montgomery's lawyers asked the outgoing US President Donald Trump for mercy for their client and asked for the death penalty to be converted into life imprisonment. The lawyers argued in their letter that Montgomery was seriously mentally ill at the time of the crime in 2004.

On January 13, 2021, Montgomery was executed by lethal injection . The execution of Lisa Montgomery's death sentence was the first execution of a woman in the United States since 2015. It was the first execution of a woman under US federal law since 1953.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Execution canceled in the US: Judge allows Lisa Montgomery to be heard again. Retrieved January 12, 2021 (German).
  2. ↑ Court documents reveal excuse womb raider Lisa Montgomery used in attempt to avoid death penalty In: nzherald.co.nz , October 23, 2020, accessed on January 13, 2021 (English)
  3. ↑ A murderess sentenced to death begs Trump for mercy. Retrieved January 12, 2021 .
  4. ↑ 'A lifetime of torture': the story of the woman Trump is rushing to execute. January 5, 2021, accessed January 12, 2021 .
  5. ^ Federal Execution Can Proceed For Lisa Montgomery, Court Rules. Retrieved January 12, 2021 .
  6. ↑ a b United States: Court suspends execution of convicted murderess for the time being . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed January 12, 2021]).
  7. ^ Pourquoi c'est important. Peines de mort: Trump pousse, mais Lisa Montgomery obtient un sursis. Retrieved January 12, 2021 (FR-FR).
  8. ↑ US executes first woman on federal death row in nearly seven decades. In: Reuters . January 13, 2021, accessed January 13, 2021 .
  9. ↑ DER SPIEGEL | Online news. Retrieved January 13, 2021 .
  10. ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/panorama/die-einzige-frau-im-todestrakt-auf-bundesebene-in-den-usa-soll-noch-in-trumps-amtszeit-hingerierter-haben-ld.1594563
  11. ↑ Øystein Andersen: Skar ut foster: Nå Skal Lisa henrettes. December 17, 2020, accessed January 12, 2021 (Norwegian).
  12. ↑ Execution of lone woman on death row can take place before Biden takes office, US court rules. January 2, 2021, accessed January 12, 2021 (Australian English).
  13. ↑ EE.UU .: ejecutarán a la única mujer condenada a muerte por un brutal crimen. January 11, 2021, accessed January 12, 2021 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Montgomery, Lisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Montgomery, Lisa Marie (full name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION American murderess
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Melvern , Kansas
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 2021
Place of death Terre Haute , Indiana