Authorities in United States of America have executed one Lisa Montgomery on Wednesday for strangling an expectant mother in Missouri and cutting off the baby from her womb.
This is the first time in nearly seven decades since the US government kill a female prisoner.
Lisa Montgomery, 52 years died at about 1:31 a.m after she received a lethal injection at federal prison complex, Terre Haute, Indiana.
She is the 11th prisoner to receive the lethal injection since July when President Donald Trump, who supported capital punishment, resume federal executions following 17 years without one.
"This is a bloodlust of a failed administration displayed tonight," Montgomery's lawyer, Kelley Henry said in a statement. "Everyone who joined hand in the execution of Lisa Montgomery should feel ashamed."
According to Lisa Montgomery half sister Diane Mattingly, Lisa was raised in a bad household where her mama, Judy Shaughnessy and her boyfriend physically, psychologically and sexually abused Lisa.
Her lawyer said Lisa problem started when her mum got pregnant with her. Her mum was a heavy drunkard throughout her pregnancy, and gave birth to Lisa with foetal alcohol syndrome. Multiple medical experts gave statements which agreed with this diagnosis.
Apart from physical assault from her mother, Lisa experienced sexual abuse from her mum's new husband (her stepfather)
According to interviews with Lisa half-siblings and others, the stepfather built a shed in trailer where him and his friends molested Lisa. Her mother also engaged in trafficking Lisa, allowing handymen like electricians and plumbers to sexually abuse Lisa inside her home in exchange for work.
When she was a little girl, Lisa confide in one of her cousins, and told her how the men would tie her up, beat her and even urinate on her afterwards.
Her crime is in 2004, Lisa Montgomery who was 36 years old then strangled a 23-year old pregnant woman, Bobbie Jo Stinnett in Missouri before cutting the baby out of her womb and kidnapped the child. Stinnett later bled to death.
Montgomery would have been executed last month but her execution was put on hold after her lawyers contracted covid-19.
Her execution was reschedule for January 12 by the Justice Department.
Bonnie Heady was the last woman to have been executed by the US government inside gas chamber, Missouri in 1953.
The Federal executions have been on pause for 17 years before President Donald Trump last year ordered its resumption.
If the remaining executions continue, President Trump will be the first US president to oversee the most executions in more than a century in the country.
Montgomery execution comes days before President-elect Joe Biden assumes office.
Mr Biden, who in decades have supported death penalty when he was a senator in Delaware said he would try to end federal executions once he assume office.
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