“Abolition of the death penalty” Biden, female death row sentenced 8 days before his inauguration

Lisa Montgomery, the only female on death row in the United States. [AP=연합뉴스]

The postponement of the execution of Lisa Montgomery, a female death row inmate who caused hot controversy over the death penalty in the United States, has been canceled. The due date is the 12th of this month. It is before the inauguration date (20th) of President-elect Joe Biden, who promised not to execute the execution.

According to CNN on the 2nd (local time), the US Washington DC Federal High Court decided that the first trial delaying Montgomery’s execution was invalid. As a result, the possibility of Montgomery being held on the 12th of this month, just before Biden’s inauguration, opened up. In this case, at the federal level, the execution of female prisoners on death row in 68 years. The lawyer said that the death penalty should not be executed, and has announced a policy to object to the decision.

Montgomery is currently the only female on death row in the United States. In December 2014, in Missouri, a 23-year-old pregnant woman was cruelly murdered and an 8-month-old fetus was taken out of her belly and kidnapped. He said he tried to raise the woman’s belly as his own child. Fortunately, the baby survived and was returned to his father.

The Trump administration resumed executions of federally controlled inmates in July that had been suspended for the past 17 years. They announced that they would resume the execution of long-term executions for long-term death row prisoners who committed violent crimes against women and the elderly. According to Politico, a media outlet for political science, the Trump administration broke the tradition of delaying executions in 130 years and executed about 10 executions so far. A life-saving campaign took place for each prisoner on death row, but the Trump administration continued to enforce it by emphasizing law and order.

Montgomery is also one of the targets. The U.S. Department of Justice announced in October last year that the executions would be executed in Indiana prisons by injection of poison. The due date was December 8th last year. Since then, there has been a heated debate among the proponents of the death penalty.

Lisa Montgomery. [EPA=연합뉴스]

The United Nations also went to rescue against the United States. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights delivered the position of human rights experts to the US government on the 3rd of last month. It was the state betraying her again.” According to them, Montgomery has been sexually assaulted several times since the age of 11 and forced into prostitution from the age of 15. I married after becoming an adult, but suffered violence from my husband.

UN human rights experts also argued that Montgomery had to be considered in a very mentally unstable state just before the crime. He said he was being threatened by his ex-spouse to take the children. It is said that he moved his residence 61 times until he was thirty-four after the crime.

Montgomery’s execution date, originally set on December 8, was postponed due to the aftermath of a novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19). The scheduled date was set for January 12, but on the 25th of last month, the Washington DC District Court put a brake on the measure as illegal. However, the old law again invalidated it.

Reporter Jeong Eun-hye [email protected]