{"id":20337,"date":"2021-01-21T04:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T04:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:bbc:podcast:p094lf8h"},"modified":"2021-01-21T04:07:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T04:07:00","slug":"lisa-montgomery-the-road-to-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/21\/lisa-montgomery-the-road-to-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Montgomery: The road to execution"},"content":{"rendered":"Lisa Montgomery\u2019s crime was an especially abominable murder: In 2004 in the small mid-West American town of Skidmore, she strangled an expectant mother, Bobbie Jo Stinnett. She then cut open her victim\u2019s womb and kidnapped her baby, who survived the ordeal. Her lawyers argued that she was mentally ill at the time \u2013 as a consequence of appalling abuse she had suffered in childhood, including gang rape and torture. They said she was also brain-damaged and delusional. Nevertheless, in the final days of Donald Trump\u2019s presidency, she paid for her actions with her own life - the first female to be executed by the US federal government in almost seven decades. As a new President assumes office, promising reform of America\u2019s criminal justice system, Hilary Andersson charts the story of this unsettling case, from Lisa Montgomery\u2019s tragic beginnings to her final moments, and finds a nation deeply divided over the issue. \n\nWarning: Disturbing content\n\nProducer: Michael Gallagher\nEditor: Bridget Harney\n\n(Image: Lisa Montgomery. Credit: Wyandotte County Sheriff \/ via EPA)\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p094lf8h\">The Documentary Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Montgomery\u2019s crime was an especially abominable murder: In 2004 in the small mid-West American town of Skidmore, she strangled an expectant mother, Bobbie Jo Stinnett. She then cut open her victim\u2019s womb and kidnapped her baby, who survived the or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598429,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20337\/revisions\/1598429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}