Early Wednesday, the federal government executed Lisa Montgomery, a Kansas woman convicted of murdering a pregnant Missouri woman and cutting her baby from her womb.
Lisa Montgomery was sentenced to death for killing a pregnant woman and removing the fetus. Montgomery’s lawyers say the murder occured during a psychotic episode.
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