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Lisa Montgomery to be first female federal inmate executed in 67 years

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Brandon Bernard also faces execution for separate killingAttorney general Bill Barr cites ‘heinous murders’The US is set to execute a female federal inmate for the first time in 67 years, Donald Trump’s justice department has said. Related: Alfre Woodard: 'We want all those with a stake in the death row business to see this film' Continue reading...

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Joe Biden urged to commute sentences of all 49 federal death row prisoners

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'This is not justice': supreme court liberals slam Trump's federal executions

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Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer issue stinging dissentsPodcast: Trump, the death penalty and America’s racist historyThe...
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Lisa Montgomery: US carries out first federal execution of a woman in nearly seven decades

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Lisa Montgomery pronounced dead on Wednesday morning after supreme court cleared path for her deathA Kansas...
Lisa Montgomery pronounced dead on Wednesday morning after supreme court cleared path for her deathA Kansas woman was executed early on Wednesday, the first time in nearly seven decades that the US government has put to death a female inmate.Lisa Montgomery, 52, was pronounced dead at 1.31am after receiving a lethal injection at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. She was the...
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