Lisa Montgomery has become the first female federal inmate to be put to death in the United States in 67 years.
Montgomery was given a lethal injection at a prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. The injection was delivered after a last-minute stay of execution was lifted by the US Supreme Court.
Much controversy has attended her case, as her lawyers argued she was mentally ill and suffered serious abuse as a child.
Montgomery, 52, the only female inmate on federal death row, was convicted of murder in 2007.
In 2004, she strangled pregnant 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett, and cut out and kidnapped her baby, in Missouri in 2004. Stinnett bled to death.
The BBC reported that Montgomery’s lawyer, Kelley Henry, said that everyone who had participated in the execution ‘should feel shame’.
‘The government stopped at nothing in its zeal to kill this damaged and delusional woman,’ Henry said in a statement. ‘Lisa Montgomery’s execution was far from justice.’