Montgomery gets death penalty for killing pregnant woman
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Lisa Montgomery was sentenced to death this morningfor killing a Missouri mother-to-be and cutting the baby from her womb.
U.S. District Judge Gary Fenner in Kansas City handed down the sentence after a jury recommended the death penalty for Montgomery in the slaying of Bobbie Jo Stinnett of Skidmore, in northwest Missouri.
The 39-year-old from Melvern was convicted in October of kidnapping resulting in death in the Dec. 16, 2004, killing of Stinnett.
Montgomery was arrested at her farmhouse a day after showing off Stinnett’s baby as her own.
She becomes the third woman on federal death row.
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