US federal judge for Southern District of Indiana, Patrick Hanlon, granted a stay of execution to Lisa Montgomery, the only female on the federal death row in the United States, just one day before the scheduled execution, citing a need to assess the inmate's competence to be execute
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 12th January, 2021) US Federal judge for Southern District of Indiana, Patrick Hanlon, granted a stay of execution to Lisa Montgomery, the only female on the federal death row in the United States, just one day before the scheduled execution, citing a need to assess the inmate's competence to be executed.
"Ms. Montgomery's motion to stay execution ... is GRANTED to allow the court to conduct a hearing to determine Ms. Montgomery's competence to be executed. The Court will set a time for the hearing in a separate order in due course," Hanlon wrote in the order late on Monday.
The inmate, convicted for murdering a 23-years-old pregnant woman in 2004, was scheduled to be executed via lethal injection at the federal correctional complex in Terre Haute, Indiana on Tuesday.
