Execution of only woman on US federal death row can go ahead, court rules

Lisa Montgomery, who strangled a pregnant woman and cut her baby out of her belly, is set to be executed by lethal injection on 12 January

A US appeals court has cleared the way for the only woman on federal death row to be executed before president-elect Joe Biden takes office.

The ruling, handed down on Friday by a three-judge panel on the US court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit, concluded that a lower court judge erred when he vacated Lisa Montgomery’s execution date in an order last week.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/02/execution-of-only-woman-on-us-federal-death-row-can-go-ahead-court-rules

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