WASHINGTON — 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.
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