Episode 17: The upcoming execution of Lisa Montgomery

Lisa Montgomery will be one of the four federal inmates executed in the last leg of President Trump’s administration. And she will be their first woman in close to 70 years to be executed by the federal government in the U.S. In 2004, the now 52 year old Lisa Montgomery committed the heinous murder of Bobbi Jo Stinnett. No one defends her grisly actions. But a number of people and groups are fighting for Lisa’s life. Her history of severe and prolonged abuses spans many years: she was a victim of child sex trafficking, gang rape, and incest, with her first exposure to abuse happening when she was a toddler. Her story has been describe as being as being ‘the most broken of the broken’--society grossly failed her at multiple points of her life, and now her life will be snuffed out at the order of Trump, who proclaims to be the most pro-life of the pro-life. Sign a petition for an execution clemency here: https://tinyurl.com/y6buhqvb

Article: ‘A lifetime of torture’: the story of the woman Trump is rushing to execute
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/05/lisa-montgomery-death-row-execution-history

Supplementary resource. The National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center is one of the groups joining the call for Lisa’s clemency: https://www.instagram.com/niwrc/

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