US government to execute first woman since 1953

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Lisa Montgomery is expected to receive lethal injection on December 8, the Justice Department says. In 2004, she was convicted of strangling a Missouri woman who was eight-months pregnant, then cut out and kidnapped the baby. The last woman executed by the US government was Bonnie Brown Heady on Dec. 18, 1953, according to US … Read more