A federal judge has blocked the execution of the only woman on death row in what was set to be the US government’s first execution of a female inmate in nearly seven decades. The 52-year-old strangled ...

Lisa Montgomery, 52, was executed by lethal injection at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, and pronounced dead at 1:31 a.m. Wednesday. Montgomery was the first woman to be ...

TERRE HAUTE — After a flurry of last-minute court orders, hours of uncertainty and one final plea to reconsider her competency, Lisa Montgomery became the first woman executed by the federal ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — A Kansas woman was executed Wednesday for strangling an expectant mother in Missouri and cutting the baby from her womb, the first time in nearly seven decades that the U.S.

Montgomery, 52, was convicted in October 2007 of one count of kidnapping resulting in death, The Kansas City Star reported. She was convicted in the Dec. 16, 2004, strangling death of Bobbie Jo ...

The federal government put Lisa Montgomery to death early Wednesday morning, the first time it has executed a woman since 1953. She was killed by lethal injection at a federal prison in Terre Haute, ...

Jan. 13 (UPI) --Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, was executed by lethal injection early Wednesday for the 2004 killing of a pregnant woman. Montgomery, 52, was pronounced dead at ...