Lisa Montgomery: Judge halts execution of only woman on US death row - 0 views
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A US judge has granted a stay of execution to Lisa Montgomery - just hours before the only woman on America's federal death row was due to be given a lethal injection.
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Montgomery's lawyers had argued she was mentally incompetent to be executed, saying she was born brain-damaged.
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Lisa Montgomery strangled a pregnant woman in Missouri before cutting out and kidnapping the baby in 2004. Montgomery, now 52, would have been the first female federal inmate to be put to death in almost 70 years had her execution in Terre Haute, Indiana, gone ahead as scheduled on 12 January.
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