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US carries out first federal execution of woman in decades
WASHINGTON, Jan 13, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – The United States carried out the first
federal execution of a woman in almost seven decades Wednesday, the US
Justice Department said.
“Lisa Montgomery, 52, was executed at the U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute in
accordance with the capital sentence unanimously recommended by a federal
jury and imposed by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of
Missouri in 2007,” it said in a statement.
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