The execution of Lisa Montgomery is back on for January 12th. Previously, Judge Randolph Moss had issued a stay of execution for Montgomery, saying that her lawyers needed more time to prepare an appeal for clemency to President Donald Trump after they contracted the Coronavirus. Judge Moss ruled that even though his stay lasted through January 1st, the Department of Justice could not even schedule her execution for another day. However, a three judge panel on the US Court of Appeals ruled that Moss had erred.
Montgomery had been convicted of the killing of Bobbie Jo Stinnett of Skidmore, cutting a baby from her womb, and passing it off as her own. Montgomery’s lawyers have argued she suffers from serious mental illness.
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