Lisa Montgomery
Lisa Montgomery, a Kansas woman, was executed by lethal injection at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, and was pronounced dead at 1:31 a.m. on January 13, 2021. She was the only woman on federal death row and the first woman the federal government had executed since 1953. Her lawyers said she had suffered years of sexual and physical abuse as a child and had severe, long-running mental illness, and they argued she could not understand why she was being executed. Her lawyer condemned the execution, and the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for it the night before.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state. Her attorneys argued she had severe mental illness and was not mentally competent to be executed, and her lawyer condemned the execution.
Reported by: U.S. government; Kelley Henry, her attorney (family or their lawyers).