The Supreme Court paved the way early Wednesday for the federal execution of Lisa Montgomery – the only woman in the federal death penalty in the United States.
Within hours, the Supreme Court had vacated two conditions of execution to allow the Federal Bureau of Prisons to kill Montgomery.
She will be the first woman executed in the United States since 1953.
The Supreme Court ruling came a day after a federal judge in Indiana granted Montgomery an execution fee on the basis of mental health.
Montgomery, the so-called ‘uterine attack’, was convicted in 2007 of the murder of 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett in the city of Skidmore in northwestern Missouri.
She used a rope to strangle Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant, and cut the baby girl out of the womb with a kitchen knife, authorities said.
Montgomery’s lawyers argued that she was mentally ill and could not understand that she would be killed.
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