U.S Executes 1st Woman on Federal Death Row in 7 decades

U.S executed murderer Lisa Montgomery on Wednesday  after the Supreme Court cleared the last hurdle for her execution by overturning a stay. Montgomery's execution marked the first time a female prisoner has been executed since 1953 in the United States, according to ABC news.

Montgomery was convicted in 2007 in Missouri for kidnapping and strangling Bobbie Jo Stinnett, then eight months pregnant. Montgomery cut Stinnett's fetus from the womb.

Meanwhile, Montgomery's lawyers asked for Donald Trump's clemency last week, saying she committed her crime after a childhood in which she was abused and repeatedly raped by her stepfather and his friends, and so should instead face life in prison.

U.S Executes 1st Woman 

The Montgomery's lawyer Kelley Henry , called the execution vicious, unlawful, and unnecessary exercise of authoritarian power.

"No one can credibly dispute Mrs. Montgomery's longstanding debilitating mental disease — diagnosed and treated for the first time by the Bureau of Prisons' own doctors," Henry said

Noteworthy, the Federal executions had been on pause for 17 years and only three men had been executed by the federal government since 1963 until the practice resumed last year under President Donald Trump, whose outspoken support for capital punishment long predates his entry into politics.