Why the fate of the only woman on federal death row hinges on these Tennessee attorneys and their health, Lisa Montgomery's execution, delayed by attorneys' COVID-19 cases, rescheduled for Jan. 12, Only woman on federal death row asks President Trump to be a 'hero,' commute her sentence, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Lisa Montgomery's half-sister Diane Mattingly, who was separated from her in 1972 has taken a more high-profile role in trying to save her life. But my hope is President Trump will stop Lisa's execution and commute her sentence to life in prison. Left: "Melvern Pride" is the focus of this sign standing at the city limits of Melvern, the community in east-central Kansas where Lisa Montgomery lived. Lisa Montgomery and Bobbie Jo Stinnett got to know each other online through a shared love of dogs. But Strong says this is the first year he's heard directly from Stinnett's husband. "The people that are defending [Montgomery], I wish I could take them back in time, and put them in that room," he says. Likewise, that jury wasn't directed to consider whether Montgomery was severely mentally ill, which Montgomery's attorneys are asking the president to take into account. ", More: Only woman on federal death row asks President Trump to be a 'hero,' commute her sentence. Mattingly says looking back to the moment life changed for her as an eight-year-old, she feels guilty that when the social workers came for her, she didn't tell them what was going on in that house. In a letterin late November written with a black crayon, Montgomery told Dorr that other inmates at Carswell took it "really hard" when her execution date was set. Today, residents are tired of Melvernbeing connected with Lisa Montgomery, said current Mayor Lyndon Weddle, who describesMelvern asafriendlyrural community where people wave when they pass each other. The father was a teacher. . Shaughnessy forced Montgomery to have sex with men in exchange for money and services, and also punished her children by killing the family dog in front of them,smashing its head with a shovel, the attorneys said. Authorities also questioned Kevin Montgomery but concluded he wasn't involved. I couldn't believe how good it felt to be part of a loving family. As an adult, Montgomerys dysfunctional life mimicked that of her childhood. Just the details: What you need to know about Montgomery and her victim, Bobbie Jo Stinnett. The following day, the police arrested Montgomery at her home. Montgomery, her sister said, was repeatedly failed: by the deputy sheriff who was told of her abuse; by the judge who was aware she was being molested; by her trial. When Mattingly and Montgomery were young, Shaughnessy beat them and doled out cruel forms of punishment, like taping Montgomery's mouth shut, or pushing Mattingly out into the snow, naked. Several high-profile figures had appealed for clemency in Brandon's case but Mr Trump did not heed those calls. Mattingly said Patterson was often away, and Shaughnessy became increasingly abusive toward them, at times forcing Mattingly to eat raw onions as punishment and go outdoors into the cold naked. Montgomery became the first female federal prisoner executed in 67 years, the first woman executed in the United States since Kelly Gissendaner in 2015, and the first person executed in the United States in 2021. As a teenager, Montgomery confided in a cousin, telling him the men would tie her up, beat her and even urinate on her afterwards. At 18, Judy pressured Lisa to marry her stepbrother. This is the stuff of nightmares.". The question is, should she be put to death for it? Even at the age of 8, Mattingly recalled being worried about what would happen to Montgomery without her there. And it's never about what my friend went through," she adds. A federal judge in November postponed Montgomery's execution from Dec. 8 until Jan. 12 to give her attorneys more time to file her clemency petition, after concluding that their COVID-19 symptoms limited their ability to file thepetition. The baby was returned to her father, after being recovered from Montgomery. Often the woman, now 52 and a grandmother of 12, is knitting or doing needlepoint. . Her case is one of the most extreme of all the cases that Ive looked at, in terms of the severity and repetition of the violence that she experienced, she said. In asking for mercy, her family members and attorneys say the untreated trauma she experienced as a child exacerbated her brain damage and hergenetic disposition to severe mental illness, leading her to kill Stinnett during a psychotic episode a dissociative state similar to sleepwalking. She is permitted Sudoku puzzles and coloring pages andone book at a time. Violent acts against pregnant women and their fetuses fall into that category. The tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. Lisa Montgomery's friend, Toby Dorr, provided this photo she took of a letter Montgomery wrote to her in November using black crayon. Lisa Montgomery, la nica mujer en el corredor de la muerte federal de Estados Unidos, fue ejecutada este mircoles por asesinato. "This was the act of a monster," he said. Jurors heard an audiotape of Harper, Stinnett's mother, calling 911 after finding her body. Diane Mattingly has been speaking publicly for the first time in the hope it can make a difference. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. More: Who was the last woman executed by the US government? Dorr met Montgomery after being imprisoned for helping an inmate escape in 2006 as Dorrran a dog training program for inmates at Lansing Correctional Facility in northeast Kansas. They also discovered that Shaughnessy prostituted. At state level, the number of sentences and executions continues a historic decline. In response to traumatic events, children may dissociate from their feelings and their bodies to protect themselves from experiencing what is happening. His physical abuse of the children had sexual undercurrents: He would make the girls strip naked before whipping them. Friends recall her as a good student with a love of horses and dogs. Kleiner was never charged. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". Court records say Kleiner drank heavily, beat his wife and children, and made his daughters take off their clothes before he spanked them. If her execution goes forward, she will be the first federal female inmate to be executed in almost 70 years. She credits this moment for her "fairly normal" life - a house on eight peaceful acres, a loving relationship with her children, nearly two decades at a job working for the state of Kentucky. At least five times after she was sterilized, she told people that she was pregnant. The couple had three children in rapid succession. Lisa's and my father was also mentally ill. My sister is on death row, Kleiner wrote in the lawsuit petition. "I don't think people understand how bad this was," Strong said. And then at the end, she was broken.". School friend Baumli says she's read the descriptions of Montgomery's abuse, but it mostly just makes her angry. Theyre saying that a sentence of life without the possibility of parole is more than sufficient punishment for someone who has endured what she did.. She enjoyed torturing the people around her," says Mattingly. DNA testing later showed they were Stinnett's. When Mattingly attendedMontgomery's sentencing hearing in 2007, which was the first time she had seen her sister in about 35 years, she said Montgomery's face bore the same look of fear it had when they were separated. She testified as. Skidmore has suffered lasting effects as a result of Stinnett's murder, said Strong, the investigator who helped prodMontgomery to confess. She didnt have nobody there to protect her once I was out of the home.. At the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child. Lisa Montgomery be di 11th prisoner to receive di lethal injection since July when President Donald Trump, resume federal executions. It has been the subject of two books, multiple true crime television shows, documentaries and countless podcast episodes. On the ride home, she clamped the umbilical cord and cleaned the baby girl with wipes. While the court admonished her for not reporting it to authorities, they did not report it either. "God, no, please," she said. That was ultimately dropped in favour of an insanity defence, but Henry believes the damage to Montgomery's credibility was already done. What you need to know about Montgomery and her victim, Bobbie Jo Stinnett. But it wasn't Montgomery that Stinnett was expecting, it was a woman who went by the name of Darlene Fischer. Lisa told me that when these men raped her, she would go away in her mind and try not to be present, the brother said in a court declaration. Residents of Melvern, where Montgomery lived, have beendivided about whether she shouldpay for her crimes with her life, said Joe Warner, who was mayor of Melvern at the time of the murder. "They put her on suicide watch to keep her from killing herself, so that they can execute her," she said. As Strong crossed the threshold, hesaw a TV set airing an Amber Alert about the abduction of Stinnett's baby. Montgomery's alcoholic mother, Judy Shaughnessy, knew about the assaults but blamed Montgomery for bringing them upon herself. Montgomery's execution date was subsequently bumped back to Jan. 12. He recalled that Montgomery begged him not to tell anyone, for fear that Kleiner would kill her. Montgomery told Stinnett that she was also expecting, and the pair shared pregnancy stories. She had bought supplies, including a home birth kit, and searched online for how to perform a caesarean section. Stinnett lived with her husband, Zeb, in Skidmore, Mo., a town near the state's northwest corner with fewerthan 300 people today. In Montgomerys early teen years, Kleiner moved the family to an isolated trailer at the end of a dead-end road outside of Sperry, Oklahoma, a severely impoverished area north of Tulsa. U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner upheld the jury's recommendation the following April. Its also people hearing it, knowing it and doing nothing about it. A lifelong opponent of the death penalty, Dorr said she wants the world to know about Lisa Montgomery the person. When Montgomery was 15, Shaughnessy and Kleiner separated. On December 8, the federal government plans to execute her for a crime she committed in the grip of severe mental illness after a lifetime of living hell. Dorr has since been released from prison and remarried. As the oldest, I was the protector of Lisa and our baby sister. When Lisa Montgomery murdered pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett and ripped her unborn baby from her womb, the whole world reeled in horror. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in . After their biological father left the home, Mattingly says they were left alone with Shaughnessy's boyfriends, at least one of whom started raping Mattingly. . Montgomery lamented that she couldn't be present to console them because she was in solitary confinement, said Dorr, Montgomery's friend since they met in a federal prison in 2006. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. At one point, one of Montgomery's brothers found a home movie that showed Montgomery's husband raping and beating her. After five hours of deliberation, the jury found Montgomery guilty. "She tried to throw her own brother under the bus for a crime that she committed.". But it is something that she carries with her and that she mourns not only for the effect on her life and that of her family, but for the terrible effect on Mrs. Stinnett, who was killed, and also her family who was left behind.. He thanked the sheriff for recovering his daughter and allowing him to be the parent that his wife couldn't be. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. Emotions ran high in 2007 as Montgomery was tried in federal court for kidnapping resulting in death. The historic reports of her at the time are consistent with the idea that she was a completely impaired mentally ill nonfunctional person who was operating within the symptoms of her mental illness, Porterfield said. she says. The population hovers around just 250, and everyone knew Bobbie Jo Stinnett and her family. ", "I live with regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa," Kidwell said, adding that he just didnt know what to do.. Mattingly said she shielded her half-sister from random baby-sitters, often older men, whom their mother left with them during her near-nightly outings to a local bar. She is the only woman on federal death row. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. "There was a lot of talk both ways on it," he said when contacted by phone at his new home in Texas. Lisa Montgomery, a federal prisoner, is now slated to be executed on Jan. 12. It is the only federal prison with an active death chamber. They married in 1986. "She was completely detached from reality.". Henry said Montgomery was expected to be transferred by Jan. 10 to the penitentiary at TerreHaute, Ind., her designated place of execution. Montgomery and Carl Boman divorced, remarried and divorced again in 1998. She began prostituting Lisa to older men when Lisa was in her early teens. More: The U.S. has not executed a woman in 67 years. "Oh, they're here, I've got to go," she said. Investigators quickly realised that "Darlene Fischer" did not exist, and tracked Montgomery down the next day using her emails and computer IP address. Strong said he and Fritz questioned Montgomery using a"good cop/bad cop" approach. Prosecutors shared records showing Montgomery had visited a website featuring a video of a live C-section birth, described as lasting from first cut to last stitch, and had made a practice run by driving the roughly 350 miles from Melvern to Skidmore and back the day before the killing. Montgomery said she was seeking a dog for a Christmas gift. In her interviews with Montgomery, Porterfield said, the woman showed symptoms of dissociation, including confused thinking, major gaps in memory, and an inability to recognize the reality of certain events. Montgomery was represented briefly after her arrest by Ron Wurtz, a now-retired attorney who has represented dozens of capital case defendants. Her mother, Judy Shaughnessy, beat and tormented all of her children, proudly telling an investigator that her daughter's first sentence was "Don't spank me, it hurts." Montgomery's first stepfather . "We knew we were walking into the killer's house.". Every time she has a birthday, it will also be the anniversary of the slaughter of her mother, Whitworth said. Judy drank throughout her pregnancy with Lisa and caused her to be born with brain damage. Judy Shaughnessy had already raised two convicted felons at the time. . Montgomery is scheduled to be put to death by a lethal injection of pentobarbital at Terre Haute prison in Indiana. I was put in foster care with a wonderful family. However, calls for Trump to be merciful are hardly unanimous. As a result of her sexual torture, Lisa began to dissociate. Montgomery clearly should spend the rest of her life in prison, but she is not among the "worst of the worst" for whom the death penalty is intended, Mattingly told The Topeka Capital-Journal. Ive always said that I am bruised, but not broken, Mattingly said, her voice choked with tears. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, told The . Montgomery was left behind with her mother. But the cousin, a sheriff's deputy, confessed to Montgomery's current legal team that he did nothing. I was thinking, shes still back there. I support my wife and her request for clemency, but because I am sick with COVID and am caring for my parents who are also sick with COVID, I ask the media to respect our need for rest and privacy," he said. If you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help. Stinnett's husband was at work, andStinnett was on the phone with her mother, Becky Harper, when Montgomery's dirty red Toyota pulled upon the afternoon of Dec. 16. Her children were disturbed by it. Since 2008, Montgomery has been held in a federal prison in Texas for female inmates with special medical and psychological needs, where she has been receiving psychiatric care. He was pumping her, Shaughnessy testified. Her lawyers are pursuing an insanity defense. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, drank while Montgomery was in utero, leaving her with brain damage, court documents say. One theory her lawyers put forward regarding the chain of events that led to the murder, is that Montgomery feared her ex-husband would expose her lies about being pregnant and use it against her as he sought custody of their children. Bobbie Jo's mother and husband have have not spoken publicly in many years. Montgomery is "evil personified," he said. A survivor of incest and sex trafficking, she is diagnosed with bipolar disorder with psychotic features, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, temporal lobe epilepsy, and cerebellar dysfunction, said Amy Harwell, a federal public defender in Tennessee who is working on Montgomerys case. She was sick. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. Shaughnessy beat her children with belts, cords and hangers, put them in cold showers and put duct tape over Montgomery's mouth to silence her, the attorneys said. Montgomery first claimed to have had the baby at a Topeka birthing center but began changing her story after investigatorsseparated her from her husband and the infant, Strong said. According to her lawyers and witnesses, Montgomery suffered years of childhood abuse so severe it was akin to torture. "Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband and raise two children who have hearts of gold," Mattingly wrote. She is not the "worst of the worst" for whom the death penalty was intended. Montgomery also talked about the abuseshe had endured from her stepfather, Jack Kleiner, and the first of her two husbands, Carl Boman, Dorr said. Kleiner, the son of Shaughnessy and Jack Kleiner, was meeting witha parole officerat the time of the killing, Strong said. This story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery's execution on 13 January. Montgomery was sentenced for the murder of a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant. He threatened to expose the imagined pregnancy and use it against her in the custody battle. The murder 16 years ago is never far from the minds of the town's residents. By multiple accounts, Kleiner was an erratic, violent man who beat the kids and his wife regularly. Around age 8, she said, a man began raping her in the bedroom she shared with Montgomery, then 4, who lay in bed right next to her. If they all go ahead, the federal government will have executed more people than any administration in nearly 100 years. Mattingly has enjoyed a "blessed life," she said. Patterson and Shaughnessy divorced in 1971, and Shaughnessy took custody of the girls. But Lisa was broken. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, who was 20 at the time of her birth in 1968, drank heavily while pregnant with her daughter. Babies born naturally tend to have misshapen heads initially because of the pressure experienced as they go through the birth canal, he said. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Henrysaid she was surprised to see Montgomery scheduled for execution so soon, considering 30 other inmates on federal death row were sentencedbefore her. "The Lisa I knew was a good person who cared about the other women in the pod and was quiet and generous and kind," Dorr said. In December 2004, Boman filed a court action seeking custody of two of their children who still lived with Montgomery while arguing that the pregnancy Montgomery was fakingillustrated she was an unfit mother, according to newspaper accounts. He testified that Montgomery had been in a dissociative state, or "mental fog," at the time. And, in fact, blaming her for it.. But they were what we come to understand as neuro-physiological adaptations to survive being constantly under assault.. On her way out the door, Mattingly said, Shaughnessy leaned over and told her it was all her fault she was being taken away. There is a decision that has to be made, separate from guilt, about whether someones behavior is so morally reprehensible that they deserve the death penalty, she said. In December 2004, Montgomery, who was 36 at the time, strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett before cutting the baby out of her womb and kidnapping it. At least five of the 12 jurors and three alternate jurorswiped away tears. More: Why the fate of the only woman on federal death row hinges on these Tennessee attorneys and their health, "Lisas trauma was so severe that it compromised her neurological functioning and development," they said in a written statement. "The whole story is tragic," says Kelley Henry, one of Montgomery's federal defence lawyers. 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