Slot Xo88
The US is to execute a female federal inmate for the first time in almost 70 years, the Justice Department said.
Lisa Montgomery strangled a pregnant woman in Missouri before cutting out and kidnapping the baby in 2004.
She is due to be given a lethal injection in Indiana on 8 December.
เกมออนไลน์ที่คนเล่นเยอะที่สุด เกมบอลบนมือถือ slotฟรีเครดิต50 romobileเควสหลัก. Bonus Bears Bonus Bears is a 5-reel game with 25 paylines. The game revolves around the life of a wild bear, and has symbols featuring a grizzly bear, a redheaded female ranger, picnic basket, a honey bee, jars of honey, bee hive, a skunk and card values A, K, Q, J, 10 and 9. SlotXO88 เราคือ ผู้รับมอบอำนาจโดยตรงจาก SlotXO88 เว็บคาสิโนออนไลน์ ที่นิยมใช้บริการ มากที่สุดในประเทศไทย รับเดิมพันคาสิโนออนไลน์ ทุกประเภท สามารถ.
The last woman to be executed by the US government was Bonnie Heady, who died in a gas chamber in Missouri in 1953, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
The federal execution of Brandon Bernard, who with his accomplices murdered two youth ministers in 1999, has also been scheduled for December.
Slot Xe88
US Attorney General William Barr said the crimes were “especially heinous murders”.
Last year, the Trump administration said it would resume federal executions.
Who is Lisa Montgomery?
In December 2004, Montgomery drove from Kansas to the home of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, in Missouri, purportedly to purchase a puppy, according to a Department of Justice press release.
“Once inside the residence, Montgomery attacked and strangled Stinnett – who was eight months pregnant – until the victim lost consciousness,” it says.
“Using a kitchen knife, Montgomery then cut into Stinnett’s abdomen, causing her to regain consciousness. A struggle ensued, and Montgomery strangled Stinnett to death. Montgomery then removed the baby from Stinnett’s body, took the baby with her, and attempted to pass it off as her own.”
Slot Xo888
In 2007, a jury found Montgomery guilty of federal kidnapping resulting in death, and unanimously recommended a death sentence.
But Montgomery’s lawyers say she experienced brain damage from beatings as a child and is mentally unwell, so should not face the death penalty.
Federal and state executions – what’s the difference?
Under the US justice system, crimes can be tried either in federal courts, at a national level, or in state courts, at a regional level.
Certain crimes, such as counterfeiting currency or mail theft, are automatically tried at a federal level, as are cases in which the US is a party or those which involve constitutional violations.
The death penalty was outlawed at state and federal level by a 1972 Supreme Court decision that cancelled all existing death penalty statutes.
A 1976 Supreme Court decision allowed states to reinstate the death penalty and in 1988 the government passed legislation that made it available again at federal level.
According to data collected by the Death Penalty Information Center, 78 people were sentenced to death in federal cases between 1988 and 2018 but only three were executed.
The executions of Montgomery and Bernard will be the eighth and ninth the federal government has carried out this year.
Why the change in rules on executions?
The Trump administration said it would resume federal executions after a long hiatus last year.
In a statement at the time, the attorney general said: “Under administrations of both parties, the Department of Justice has sought the death penalty against the worst criminals.
“The Justice Department upholds the rule of law – and we owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system.”