Washington A Federal Court of Appeal has paved the way for the only woman in federal death struggle to be executed before Elected President Joe Biden assumes office.
The verdict, delivered Friday by a three-judge panel on U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, concluded that a lower court judge erred in setting Lisa Montgomery’s execution date last week in evacuated an order.
U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss ruled that the Ministry of Justice wrongly rescheduled Montgomery’s execution and he orders an order from the director of the Bureau of Prisons planning her death for January 12th.
Montgomery was to be killed at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, in December, but Moss delayed the execution after her attorneys contracted a coronavirus that visited their client and asked him to extend the time to file a plea. to ask.
Moss concluded that the Bureau of Prisons under his command could not even reschedule the execution of Montgomery until at least January 1st. But the appeals panel disagrees.
Meaghan VerGow, a Montgomery lawyer, said her legal team will ask the full appellate court to review the case and said Montgomery should not be executed on January 12.
Montgomery was convicted in December 2004 of murdering 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett in the town of Skidmore, northwestern Missouri. knife, authorities said. Prosecutors took Montgomery with the child and tried to hand over the girl as her own.
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Lawyers from Montgomery argued that their client suffers from serious mental illness. Biden is against the death penalty and his spokesman, TJ Ducklo, said he would work to end its use. But Biden did not say whether he would stop federal executions after taking office January 20th.