hello thanks very much for joining us
here on bbc world news we start in the
united states
where the execution of lisa montgomery
has been carried out this just a day
after a u.s judge postponed it
arguing that she was too mentally ill to
understand why she was being executed
that decision was overturned by the
supreme court
lisa montgomery was sentenced to death
in 2007 for strangling a pregnant woman
in missouri before cutting out and
kidnapping her unborn baby
she's the first woman to be put to death
since 1953
her lawyers and supporters had appealed
to president trump for clemency
our correspondent nomia iqbal reports
from indiana where the execution took
place
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on the roadside opposite the prison many
came to have their say
since last summer the town of terre
haute has seen nine people sent to their
death
it's after federal executions were
resumed by the government for the first
time
in nearly two decades and now lisa
montgomery
the only woman on federal death row is
the latest
in a statement her lawyer kelly henry
said the craven bloodlust of a failed
administration
was on full display tonight everyone who
participated in the execution of lisa
montgomery should feel
shame our constitution forbids the
execution of a person who is
unable to rationally understand her
execution
the current administration knows this
and they killed her anyway
her lawyers and advocates say montgomery
wasn't the worst of society
but the most broken and that as a
mentally ill victim
of childhood abuse she deserved mercy
who should have been kept behind bars
for the rest of her life that's a view
shared by people here
i just don't think that we have any
right to kill somebody else
nobody's saying that they didn't commit
these crimes and i and most people
aren't saying that they committed them
i believe in a loving god that it has
forgiveness and i believe that we should
not be killing people
the only people gathered outside the
jail are those who believe lisa
montgomery should not have been put to
death
and that it wasn't up to the government
to decide but we've seen people driving
past
shouting abuse at the protesters because
many think that capital punishment
should exist for a shocking crime like
this
in 2004 montgomery traveled from her
home in kansas to missouri
to visit bobby joe stinnett who was
heavily pregnant
she strangled her and kidnapped the baby
from her womb
the baby survived bobby joe stinnett
bled
to death for those close to mrs stinnett
the death of montgomery is the only
justice they want
including the police officer who tracked
her down
this case haunts those of us that worked
it
this is a devil come back to
earth disguises lisa montgomery for
those who sat
here into the night they hoped
montgomery's fate would have been
decided next week by the new president
joe biden has indicated he would abolish
the federal death penalty
but time ran out closing the page on the
tortured life
and horrific crime of lisa montgomery
nomirikval bbc news indiana