WASHINGTON – A woman convicted of fatally strangling a pregnant woman, cutting her body open and kidnapping her baby is scheduled to be the first female inmate put to death by the U.S.
government in more than six decades, the Justice Department said Friday.Lisa Montgomery is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Dec.
8 at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. She would be the ninth federal inmate to put to death since the Justice Department resumed executions in July after a nearly 20-year hiatus.Montgomery was convicted of killing 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett in the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore in December 2004.Montgomery drove from her Kansas home to Stinnett’s house in Skidmore under the guise of.