Posted on 11/19/2020 3:50:08 PM PST by RummyChick
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is temporarily blocking the federal government’s plan to execute the first female death row inmate in almost six decades after her attorneys contracted the coronavirus visiting her in prison.
The order, handed down Thursday by U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss in Washington, prohibits the federal Bureau of Prisons from carrying out Lisa Montgomery’s execution before the end of the year. She was scheduled to be put to death on Dec. 8 at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Montgomery’s attorneys had sought to delay the execution in order to file a clemency petition on her behalf. The lawyers, Kelley Henry and Amy Harwell, tested positive for COVID-19 after they flew to visit her at a Texas prison last month. In court papers, they said each roundtrip visit involved two flights, hotel stays and interaction with airline and hotel staff, as well as prison employees.
Montgomery’s legal team has argued that their client suffers from serious mental illnesses and can’t assist in filing her own clemency petition, in part because all of her clothes have been taken away and she’s been left only with a “sheet of paper and a single crayon” in her cell, attorney Sandra Babcock said in court this week.
Both Henry and Harwell have serious symptoms from the virus and are “functionally incapacitated” and thus unable to help file a clemency petition, Babcock said. Another attorney couldn’t be assigned to file one because Montgomery’s mental status has deteriorated since the Justice Department scheduled her execution last month and she doesn’t trust many lawyers, but Henry and Harwell have worked with her for years and have gained her trust, Babcock argued.
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well that copy and paste of the title didnt go well
Is the hope that by delaying the execution they will get more lawyers to contract the virus?
Just have the b+tch dance the hemp fandango already. Don't care if she has a cold.
It’s her legal representation that is sick and the cause of the issue.
She is an oxygen thief.
Even insane monsters deserve due process.
I doubt the clemency request is granted but it could be.
More then once.
I could see it maybe if there was any doubt of her guilt but there is not.
She made friends with a woman for the express purpose of killing her and stealing her baby. She planed it.
The horror that poor lady went though, the suffering of the family and impact on the child.
I just don't have much left over for the monster that caused so much pain.
I don't want her to suffer, I just want her off my planet.
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WHAT????
WHISKEY BRAVO TANGO CHARLIE FOXTROT WHATWASTHAT
No. Clemency application is part of the due process for someone facing execution. Executive Clemency is the fail safe of the criminal justice system as per SCOTUS
She should not be executed without the chance to receive it.
The due process during the Clemency Hearing need only be rudimentary as per SCOTUS. DOnt know if they have changed their view
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