A federal judge issued a stay in the January 12th execution of Lisa Montgomery. Montgomery was sentenced to death for the 2004 murder of Bobbie Jo Stinnett.
Montgomery's original execution date of December 8th was postponed after both her attorneys contracted the Coronavirus. Montgomery is being held at the Federal Medical Center in Carswell, Texas but her execution was scheduled to take place at the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.
On Thursday, a D.C. District Judge ruled the federal government acted illegally in resetting Montgomery's execution since a stay was already in place after her attorneys became ill with Covid-19.
In 2007, a jury convicted Montgomery of murdering the pregnant Stinnett in her Missouri home. She cut Stinnett's baby out of her womb, and took the child to Kansas where the baby was recovered.
Montgomery's attorneys say their client suffers a dissociative disorder and her health has deteriorated since she has been incarcerated.
