Lisa Montgomery, a Kansas native scheduled within days to become the first woman executed by the federal government in 67 years, lived a childhood so abusive her attorneys call it akin to torture. She ...

Lisa Montgomery, a convicted killer who strangled a pregnant woman in 2004 and then cut the unborn baby from her womb, was executed in a federal prison in Indiana early Wednesday. She was the first ...

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court has cleared the way for the only woman on federal death row to be executed before President-elect Joe Biden takes office. The ruling, handed down Friday by a three ...

Lisa Montgomery was put to death by lethal injection after she murdered Bobbie Jo Stinnett, a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant, in 2004 Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE ...

Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, was executed early Wednesday morning, despite her attorneys' arguments that her severe mental illness rendered her unable to understand why she ...

Lisa Montgomery's attorney denounced the "craven bloodlust of a failed administration" after the U.S. government executed her in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Montgomery, 52, was pronounced ...

Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, was set to be put to death early Wednesday morning after the Supreme Court denied three rulings by federal courts ordering a stay of execution.

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. government has put to ...

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

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