Lisa Montgomery, the Melvern woman on Death Row for the 2004 murder of a pregnant woman, has been granted a “Stay” less that 24 hours before her scheduled execution. A judge in the U. S. District Court in Indiana says there is enough evidence of mental illness that makes Montgomery incompetent for execution and ordered an Evidentiary Hearing to determine that competence. Her Attorney, Kelly Henry:
Montgomery was convicted in 2007 of the murder of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, after Montgomery traveled to Missouri, cut a baby out of Stinnett’s uterus and attempted to pass the baby as her own. Her attorney has filed a petition for Executive Clemency.
