The US federal authorities for the first time in 68 years executed a woman. She killed a pregnant woman and gave her a child for her

Her criminal was made by brutal violence from early childhood, lawyers say

In the prison of the city of Terre-Khot (Indiana), 52-year-old Lisa Montgomery was executed , convicted of killing a pregnant woman and kidnapping her child. She introduced a deadly injection. Before the execution, Montgomery was asked if she wanted to say something. She replied not.

Lisa Montgomery is the third woman executed by the US Federal Government since 1900. Previous executions at the federal level were held back in 1953. Then two women were executed at once: Bonnie Brown Hedi - for the abduction and murder of the son of a car tycoon, Ethel Rosenberg - for espionage in favor of the USSR. The executions of women at the state level were carried out after 1953. The last of them took place in 2015; Kelly Gissender, sentenced to death for organizing the murder of her husband, was executed. The death penalty at the federal level resumed in July 2020 after a 17-year break.

Lisa Montgomery licked the fetus from a pregnant woman. And passed him down for her child

In 2004, a resident of Kansas Lisa Montgomery contacted the Internet with 23-year-old Bobby Joe Stinnett from Missouri. They were familiar with the forum of dog breeders, where Stinnett wrote that she was expecting a child. Lisa introduced herself to Bobby Joe with a stranger and came to her under the pretext of buying a puppy. She began to strangle Bobby Joe, who at that time was in the eighth month of pregnancy. Then Montgomery cut her stomach with a knife and removed the child. Bobby Joe was still alive when her mother found her after a few hours. The young woman died in the hospital.

Lisa returned to Kansas and informed her husband Kevin that she had given birth to a girl. Before that, she told her husband that she was pregnant, so he believed that the newborn is their child. Lisa showed the girl not only to her husband, but also to neighbors, who also told what she was expecting a child. The woman was detained a day after the crime. The girl she abducted, survived. She was returned to her father, who called her Victoria Joe. She is now 16 years old. She never spoke publicly about the death of her mother.

Montgomery simulated pregnancy several times. The ex -husband was going to use this to take her children from her

In court, Kevin Montgoremi said that his wife, who gave birth to four children in his previous marriage, informed him about pregnancy three times (in the first two times she allegedly had to make abortion due to health problems). But Lisa's ex -husband Karl Boman said that in fact she could not have children: after four births she was sterilized.

According to Karl, Lisa simulated pregnancy not only in marriage with Kevin, but also in marriage with him - although he, unlike Kevin, knew about sterilization. After the divorce, Karl wanted to achieve guardianship over two of the four children whom Lisa gave birth to him, and was going to use the fake pregnancy of his ex -wife as an argument against her in court. Lisa knew about these plans. According to Karl, shortly before the murder, she called him and promised to "prove that he was wrong."

The accusation demanded for Lisa the death penalty, saying that she was sane and planned a crime - in particular, she was looking for a cesarean section on the Internet. The defense insisted on life imprisonment, claiming that the defendant from childhood was a victim of violence, which was why she had developed a false pregnancy syndrome (pseudo-round). Their arguments did not convince the jury, and they advocated the death penalty.

Montgomery since childhood was a victim of violence. The stepfather raped her, and the mother forced to engage in prostitution

According to lawyers, Judy Schonesses - the mother of Lisa - drank during pregnancy. Father left the family, even when the girl was three years old. When she turned four, her eight -year -old sister Diana was taken by the guardianship organs: she was sexually abused by one of Judy's friends. Lisa remained with her mother, who treated her cruelly - for example, forced her to take a cold shower when the girl urinated in bed and sealed her mouth with tape when she wanted to make her to shut up.

By the age of 13, Lisa began to rape her ear-alcoholic Jack Kleiner. She was also raped by his friends. Kleiner threatened Lisa that Patty's younger sister raped her if she refuses to obey him, and that she would kill her whole family if she tells someone. By the time Lisa was 15, her mother also connected to her sexual exploitation. She forced her daughter to have sex with electricians and plumbers as a fee for their services.

In elementary school, Lisa was an excellent student, but later she was transferred to a class for children with special needs. After graduation, she wanted to go into the army, but at the age of 18 she married 25-year-old Karl Boman. He was the son of the fourth husband of her mother and was her consolidated brother. Karl, to the relationship with which Lisa pushed her mother, beat and raped his wife. By the age of 23, Lisa gave birth to four children. In 1990, she was sterilized (according to the defense, at the insistence of her mother and husband).

Later Karl and Lisa divorced, and she married a second time for Kevin Montgomery. He was not as cruel as Karl, but also subjected her to physical and sexual violence. Lisa began to drink a lot after the birth of children and could not take care of them. She also did not follow herself, she had lice.

Lawyers who began to work with Lisa after the death sentence claimed that, against the background of constant violence, she developed a set of mental disorders and neurological disorders. She hardly understood what was real and what was not, she did not feel her own body, could not control her impulses. The murder has become the culmination of her mental disorder. Lawyers insisted that the state could not protect Lisa: neither the guardianship authorities that took her older sister; not a school where she came in dirty and holey clothes; Not a cousin of brother-police, to whom she spoke about violence from her stepfather. In addition, lawyers harshly criticized their colleagues, who initially underestimated the role of Lisa’s injuries in her crime. The defense also noted that, besides Lisa, none of the women, in recent decades of convicts in the United States for the abduction of an unborn child, was sentenced to death.

Protection Montgomery sought the abolition of the death sentence, insisting that the convict would not understand why she was executed

Recently, Lisa’s defense has achieved the abolition of execution, insisting that due to the ongoing violence, she is mentally ill and is not able to understand why she was executed. Lawyers and more than a thousand activists asked the current US President Donald Trump to soften the punishment of Lisa, and the Mezhamerican Commission on Human Rights proposed to postpone her execution. But the decisions of the commission do not have legal force, and Trump did not respond to appeals.

The execution of Lisa was appointed to December, but it was postponed, since two lawyers of the convicted fell ill with a Covid. In the last days before the execution of the sentence, the defense of Lisa has achieved a delay in execution in several ships at once. But the US Supreme Court canceled this delay. The lawyer of the convicted Kelly Henry called the execution with his client’s disgrace: “ Our constitution prohibits the execution of a person who cannot rationally comprehend this execution.”

Olga Korelina