The adoption of the first federal death sentence for a woman in the United States in nearly 70 years

US Attorney General William Barr said that Lisa’s crime was subject to heavy penalties.

Last year, the government of President Donald Trump announced that it would return to the use of the death penalty at the federal level.

What did Lisa Montogomery do?

At the end of 2004, Lisa drove her car from Kansas to Missouri after agreeing with Bobby Stennett to buy a puppy from her.

And Lisa had planned everything according to the court. As soon as she entered the home of the victim, who was eight months pregnant, she strangled her until she lost consciousness. Then she “used the kitchen knife and slit her stomach. “.

After 3 years, a federal court decided Lisas conviction, and a death sentence was passed against her, a sentence that is usually issued according to the American judicial system unanimously.

Lawyers for Lisa argued against the ruling, saying she was not in her mental strength because of the constant beatings during her childhood.

In 1972, the US Supreme Court decided to abolish the use of the death penalty in federal and state courts and also abolished death sentences that were pending execution at that time.

But six years later, the same court granted state courts the right to use the death penalty again before the US government decided in 1988 to reinstate the same punishment in federal courts.

According to the data of the American Execution Follow-up Center, between 1988 and 2018, 78 people were sentenced to death, of which only 3 were executed.

Lisas execution will be the eighth sentence the US government will carry out under the Trump administration this year, pending the execution of the ninth sentence later this year.