Later on, Diane Mattingly, Montgomery’s half-sister testified that she remembered “walking on egg shells” as a child and “being made to feel like she was not good enough.” Her parents divorced when she was three and her half-sister, Diane, was removed from the home. The court record noted that Montgomery’s father was an alcoholic and her mother drank alcohol “to the point of inebriation” while pregnant with Montgomery.
Īccording to court documents from Montgomery’s death penalty appeal, Montgomery - whose maiden name was Movant - was physically and sexually abused by her biological and stepfather. She’s been diagnosed with severe mental illness. After falsely telling friends she was pregnant, she killed a pregnant woman and took the baby. "Executing Lisa Montgomery would be yet another injustice inflicted on a woman who has known a lifetime of mistreatment.As a child, Lisa Montgomery was repeatedly raped by her stepfather and severely beaten. "No other woman has been executed for a similar crime, because most prosecutors have recognized that it is inevitably the product of trauma and mental illness," Babcock said. No one intervened to help Lisa, though many knew what was happening to her," attorney Sandra Babcock said in a statement. "It is difficult to grasp the extremity of the horrors Lisa suffered from her earliest childhood, including being raped by her stepfather, handed off to his friends for their use, sold to groups of adult men by her own mother and repeatedly gang raped, and relentlessly beaten and neglected. Montgomery's lawyers have argued that their client suffers from serious mental illnesses. Montgomery took the child with her and attempted to pass the girl off as her own, prosecutors said. 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, authorities said. Montgomery was convicted of killing 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett in the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore in December 2004. But Ducklo did not say whether executions would be paused immediately once Biden takes office. Eight people have been executed since July, more than during the previous half-century, despite waning public support from both Democrats and Republicans for its use.īiden spokesman TJ Ducklo has said the president-elect "opposes the death penalty now and in the future" and would work as president to end its use. The Justice Department resumed federal executions this year after a 17-year hiatus. 14 and 15 while two other executions are scheduled for December. Cory Johnson and Dustin Higgs are scheduled to be put to death on Jan. With the new execution date, Montgomery would be one of three federal inmates scheduled to die that week. Lisa Montgomery appears in a booking photo released Decemin Kansas City, Kansas. In court papers, they said each roundtrip visit from Nashville involved two flights, hotel stays and interaction with airline and hotel staff, as well as prison employees. Montgomery's attorneys, Kelley Henry and Amy Harwell, said they both tested positive for COVID-19 after they flew from Nashville, Tennessee, to visit her at the federal prison in Texas where she is serving her sentence. The delay was meant to allow her attorneys to recover from the virus and file a clemency petition on her behalf. 20.Ī federal judge in Washington had delayed the December execution of Montgomery, 49, because her lawyers tested positive for the novel coronavirus after visiting her behind bars. government now plans to execute the first female inmate in almost six decades just days before President-elect Joe Biden, an opponent of the death penalty, takes office.Īttorneys for Lisa Montgomery said Monday that the Justice Department rescheduled her execution for Jan.
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