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Judge Halts 1st US Execution of Female Inmate in 67 Years | AM 740 KVOR | KVOR-AM
Lisa Montgomery drove about 170 miles from her Kansas farmhouse to the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore under the guise of adopting a puppy from Bobbie Jo Stinnett, a 23-year-old dog breeder. She strangled Stinnett with a rope before performing a crude cesarean and fleeing with Stinnett's unborn baby.
U.S. District Judge James Patrick Hanlon found that the court must first hold a hearing to determine whether Montgomery meets the legal criteria for competency before the execution can move forward, finding she "would be irreparably injured if the government executes her when she is not competent to be executed."
Those words in bold seem strange to me. A convicted murderer would be irreparably injured if the government executes her when she is not competent to be executed. I expect that all executions cause irreparable injury by definition. If a person has been convicted and appeals have been exhausted, you would think the judge's reasoning for a stay would be more creative than her execution would cause her to be "irreparably injured". Everyone is entitled to their view on capital punishment, but the reasoning here would seem to apply to everyone on death row.
Lisa Montgomery drove about 170 miles from her Kansas farmhouse to the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore under the guise of adopting a puppy from Bobbie Jo Stinnett, a 23-year-old dog breeder. She strangled Stinnett with a rope before performing a crude cesarean and fleeing with Stinnett's unborn baby.
U.S. District Judge James Patrick Hanlon found that the court must first hold a hearing to determine whether Montgomery meets the legal criteria for competency before the execution can move forward, finding she "would be irreparably injured if the government executes her when she is not competent to be executed."
Those words in bold seem strange to me. A convicted murderer would be irreparably injured if the government executes her when she is not competent to be executed. I expect that all executions cause irreparable injury by definition. If a person has been convicted and appeals have been exhausted, you would think the judge's reasoning for a stay would be more creative than her execution would cause her to be "irreparably injured". Everyone is entitled to their view on capital punishment, but the reasoning here would seem to apply to everyone on death row.