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.
U.S. executes 1st federal inmate in 17 years 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.