U.S. to carry out first federal execution of a woman in seven decades

[dalton99a]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-execution/u-s-to-carry-out-first-federal-execution-of-a-woman-in-seven-decades-idUSKBN27135X

October 16, 2020 6:28 PM
U.S. to carry out first federal execution of a woman in seven decades
By Brendan O’Brien

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Friday it has scheduled the first federal execution of a woman in almost 70 years, setting a Dec. 8 date to put to death Lisa Montgomery, convicted of a 2004 murder.

Montgomery, who was found guilty of strangling a pregnant woman in Missouri, will be executed by lethal injection at U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, Indiana, the department said in a statement.

The last woman to be executed by the U.S. government was Bonnie Heady, who was put to death in a gas chamber in Missouri in 1953, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

The justice department on Friday also scheduled a Dec. 10. execution for Brandon Bernard, who with his accomplices murdered two youth ministers in 1999.

The two executions will be the eighth and ninth the federal government has carried out in 2020.

[Nevilledog]

1. Surprised they didn't want it before the election.

[Wounded Bear]

2. I'm sure Trump and Barr will be very proud of this...

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Call it what it is.

They're going to murder her on December 8.

[IcyPeas]

4. What about Karla Faye Tucker

She was executed in, I think, the 90s.

[Silent3]

6. That was a state execution, not federal n/t

[chowder66]

7. Federal vs State executions. I think.

[flotsam]

8. Yep-I guess they are talking only federal cases...

Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary.[3] She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863.[4] She was convicted of murder in Texas in 1984 and executed by lethal injection after 14 years on death row.[5] Due to her gender and widely publicized conversion to Christianity, she inspired an unusually large national and international movement that advocated the commutation of her sentence to life without parole, a movement that included a few foreign government officials.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karla_Faye_Tucker

There were others-Velma Barfield was executed in North Carolina in the 80's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velma_Barfield

[Sogo]

5. What did she do,

have an abortion?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

11. Close! She killed a pregnant woman.

Killing the embryo or fetus probably made it a death sentence in our current state of affairs.

[tblue37]

14. She didn't kill the baby. She killed the mother and stole the baby. Probably that was

why she killed the mother--to get the baby.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

18. Thank you.

The link in the OP was the first time that I'd read anything about it. Thanks for the clarification.

[flotsam]

9. 16 women have been executed on state charges since 1976

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_executed_in_the_United_States_since_1976

[gratuitous]

10. And yet we still have crime

Maybe capital punishment isn't quite the deterrent its proponents claim?

[Awsi Dooger]

12. I hope Brenda Andrews can join the list

She's on death row in Oklahoma. Many true crime programs have covered her case. That's why I'm familiar with it.

[DFW]

13. Don't wait to hear any protests from the so-called pro life crowd

You won’t—because they aren’t.

[Buckeyeblue]

15. Seems like a life sentence in prison is worse

I couldn't think of anything worse than going to prison young or youngish and being their for decades, closed off from society while growing old.

I'm anti-death penalty, mainly because we get so many cases wrong.

But if it were me, I'd rather be put down like a dog (which is essentially what they are doing) than spend decades in prison.

It's interesting that Timothy McVeigh blows up the building in OK and gets a relatively quick death sentence--because he demands it. Seems like shutting him off from the world to grow old and die would have been worse.

Except for the extremely violent, I'm not really for prison. People who commit crimes need to be helped. Punishment should be in the form of restitution.

[dewsgirl]

16. Aileen Wuornos? Was that a state execution?

[dalton99a]

22. Yes, Wuornos was executed by Florida under Jeb Bush

She was pronounced dead from lethal injection at 9:47 a.m. in Florida State Prison near Starke.
"I’d just like to say I’m sailing with the Rock and I’ll be back like Independence Day with Jesus, June 6, like the movie, big mothership and all. I’ll be back," Wuornos said from the execution chamber.

https://apnews.com/article/02cb5e52d50e756b8576d1b9a37f184a

[cwydro]

25. I saw that movie about her. Tragic.

I think it was Charlize Theron wo played her and did a terrific job. I couldn’t believe how she so effectively changed her appearance.

[dewsgirl]

30. Thank you. She was great in that movie.

[spanone]

17. will trump do the injection? I'm sure he'd get a standing ovation

[sinkingfeeling]

19. Why was this a federal case?

[dalton99a]

20. "Kidnapping resulting in death"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Bobbie_Jo_Stinnett
Murder of Bobbie Jo Stinnett

Montgomery was charged with the federal offense of "kidnapping resulting in death",[9] a crime established by the Federal Kidnapping Act of 1932,[8] and described in Title 18 of the United States Code. If convicted, she faced a sentence of life imprisonment or the death penalty.[8]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/18/fetus.found.alive/
Baby found alive; woman arrested
Saturday, December 18, 2004 Posted: 3:14 PM EST (2014 GMT)

Lisa Montgomery, 36, of Melvern, Kansas, was arrested and charged in the kidnapping of the child "resulting in the death of the infant's mother" Bobbie Jo Stinnett, 23, according to an FBI affidavit filed late Friday.

If convicted, Montgomery could face a maximum of life in prison or the death penalty, and a maximum $250,000 fine.

The infant girl has been recovered and was in good condition at Stormont-Vail Regional Medical Center in Topeka.

The girl's father was reunited with her Friday evening, authorities said. She was the couple's first child.

"The baby is fine. The baby is doing great," U.S. Attorney Todd Graves said.

Todd Graves is now chairman of the Missouri Republican Party

[sinkingfeeling]

21. Thanks

[USALiberal]

23. Many here on DU are ok with the death penalty! Nt

[cwydro]

26. I go back and forth on it.

Reading about what this woman did, or the crimes of Chris Watt, Susan Smith, and others pushes me one way.

The fact that our criminal justice system is so effed up pushes me the other.

[USALiberal]

28. It is just revenge, not cheaper, not a deterrent! Nt

[cwydro]

29. No, I've never thought of it as a deterrent.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

24. Abolish the death penalty.

[North Shore Chicago]

27. She murders one.

How many has mushroom-dick killed with his mishandling of a highly contagious virus? Would we want a firing squad? lethal injection? a long walk on a short pier? smothered in fish oil and tossed in shark infested waters? or we could just get creative.