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Executions Scheduled for Two Federal Inmates Convicted of Heinous Murders
justice.gov ^ | October 16, 2020 | Department of Justice

Posted on 10/16/2020 4:50:57 PM PDT by ransomnote

Attorney General William P. Barr today directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to schedule the executions of two federal death-row inmates, both of whom were convicted of especially heinous murders at least 13 years ago.

  • Lisa Montgomery fatally strangled a pregnant woman, Bobbie Jo Stinnett, cut open her body, and kidnapped her baby. In December 2004, as part of a premeditated murder-kidnap scheme, Montgomery drove from her home in Kansas to Stinnett’s home in Missouri, purportedly to purchase a puppy.  Once inside the residence, Montgomery attacked and strangled Stinnett—who was eight months pregnant—until the victim lost consciousness.  Using a kitchen knife, Montgomery then cut into Stinnett’s abdomen, causing her to regain consciousness.  A struggle ensued, and Montgomery strangled Stinnett to death.  Montgomery then removed the baby from Stinnett’s body, took the baby with her, and attempted to pass it off as her own.  Montgomery subsequently confessed to murdering Stinnett and abducting her child.  In October 2007, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri found Montgomery guilty of federal kidnapping resulting in death, and unanimously recommended a death sentence, which the court imposed.  Her conviction and sentence were affirmed on appeal, and her request for collateral relief was rejected by every court that considered it.  Montgomery is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on December 8, 2020, at U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, Indiana. 

  • Brandon Bernard and his accomplices brutally murdered two youth ministers, Todd and Stacie Bagley, on a military reservation in 1999. After Todd Bagley agreed to give a ride to several of Bernard’s accomplices, they pointed a gun at him, forced him and Stacie into the trunk of their car, and drove the couple around for hours while attempting to steal their money and pawn Stacie’s wedding ring.  While locked in the trunk, the couple spoke with their abductors about God and pleaded for their lives.  The abductors eventually parked on the Fort Hood military reservation, where Bernard and another accomplice doused the car with lighter fluid as the couple, still locked in the trunk, sang and prayed.  After Stacie said, “Jesus loves you,” and “Jesus, take care of us,” one of the accomplices shot both Todd and Stacie in the head—killing Todd and knocking Stacie unconscious.  Bernard then lit the car on fire, killing Stacie through smoke inhalation.  In June 2000, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas found Bernard guilty of, among other offenses, two counts of murder within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, and unanimously recommended a death sentence.  His conviction and sentence were affirmed on appeal, and his request for collateral relief was rejected by every court that considered it.  Bernard is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on December 10, 2020, at U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, Indiana.  One of his accomplices, Christopher Vialva, was executed for his role in the Bagleys’ murder on September 22, 2020.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bobbiejostinnett; lisamontgomery

1 posted on 10/16/2020 4:50:57 PM PDT by ransomnote
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Is there a not heinous murder?


2 posted on 10/16/2020 4:51:34 PM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: ransomnote

One of them is woman who killed a pregnant woman, cut the baby out of her womb and tried to pass it off as her own.

A special class of heinous.


3 posted on 10/16/2020 5:02:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Elections have consequences. We won, you lost. Get over it." --Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: ransomnote

Bye bye M'fers.

4 posted on 10/16/2020 5:03:53 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: dsrtsage

Murder, by definition is heinous. Killing can be in self defense or other mitigating circumstances.


5 posted on 10/16/2020 5:06:54 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Rome wasn't built in a day. All Hail the night shift!)
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To: ransomnote
Thanks for the day brightener! Just when you think there is not a drop of good news to be had, we are suddenly treated to this bit of sunshine. Most excellent!

Buh-bye, Lisa. You can meet Brandon in hell and exchange notes.
 

6 posted on 10/16/2020 5:23:37 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: ransomnote

These people are vile and I, for one, will CELEBRATE their deaths.

Their continued use of oxygen of the same planet as I, offends me.


7 posted on 10/16/2020 5:48:14 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: ransomnote

When is the Ft. Hood shooter getting his turn? Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev also needs a quick one way ticket to hell not to mention 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammad. Too bad hanging isn’t an option these days and they could all go simultaneously on a single gallows.


8 posted on 10/16/2020 7:01:24 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatche)
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To: ransomnote

13 years ago. And yet, they couldn’t hardly wait to execute Timothy McVeigh.


9 posted on 10/16/2020 7:02:26 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ransomnote
Here is a list of articles on the murder of Bobbie Jo Stinnett. The father was reunited with the baby after the baby was found alive.

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/bobbiejostinnett/index?tab=articles

10 posted on 10/16/2020 7:22:09 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: packrat35

Yes, their decomposing corpses should be continuing the circle of life further down the food chain, six feet under.


11 posted on 10/17/2020 5:18:49 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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