She has exhausted all legal options except a last-ditch appeal for clemency from President Donald Trump, which was filed Christmas Eve. "She got joy out of it.". A lifelong opponent of the death penalty, Dorr said she wants the world to know about Lisa Montgomery the person. "I'm sick of hearing about Lisa Montgomery and what she went through. "I have seen a lot of horrible things happen to women and children in my more than 40 years in law enforcement," Strongsaid. Zella Gwin survives. Shaughnessy in 1974 married her third husband, Jack Kleiner, a divorced father of five. "There's so many people that failed her throughout her whole life. Henry said Montgomery was expected to be transferred by Jan. 10 to the penitentiary at TerreHaute, Ind., her designated place of execution. Mattingly and Montgomery lived together until Mattingly was eight and her half-sister was four. She had brain damage, likely caused by exposure to alcohol when she was a. She also told one of her stepbrothers about the sexual abuse around that time. While my path to healing was very hard, the difference between Lisa and me is that no one ever intervened to rescue Lisa from a lifetime of abuse. Montgomery, 52, the only woman on federal death row, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Jan. 12 in the U.S. Penitentiary at Terre Haute, Ind. The nature and circumstances of Montgomerys crime show she had lost touch with reality, says her half-sister, Diane 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. She has always accepted responsibility. The threat of losing her children, combined with the years of untreated trauma and severe mental illness, pushed Lisa over the edge. Her lawyers are pursuing an insanity defense. Ms. Montgomery described feeling that she was unsure whether her environment was real, and confided that she used a strategy to ground herself in reality: She would look at a tree out the window and tell herself that the tree was real if she could see it. A home videoshowsCarl Boman raping and beating Montgomery, said her half-brother, Teddy Kleiner, who gave a sworn statementsaying he had seen it. Who was the last woman executed by the US government? However, the executions ordered by President Trump are continuing. Back home, the couple announced the birth of their daughter to their friends and relatives. At 18, Judy pressured Lisa to marry her stepbrother. Stinnett wasn't breathing and was cold. The baby was returned to her father, after being recovered from Montgomery. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, told The . "She seemed like a real personI could connect with and build a relationship with inside prison," Dorr said. Lisa Montgomery tried to get counseling the year before she killed Stinnettbut wasn'tconnected to a quality provider, her attorneys said. It is extremely rare for women to be sentenced to death, said Sandra Babcock, faculty director of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide and an expert on women and the death penalty. She lives near Kansas City, Mo. And nowhere is that support more palpably felt in this case than in Skidmore. Every year. They recommended a sentence of death. Recently, there has been a virus outbreak on death row at the institution, and previous executions have been linked to outbreaks among the execution team and prison staff. She said it was over and over, one man right after the other, and went on for hours, her cousin said in a sworn statement. 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. She pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. ", "I live with regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa," Kidwell said, adding that he just didnt know what to do.. 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. A sworn statement from David Kidwell Sr. identified as being Montgomery's cousin and a deputy sheriff said shecried as she told him Kleiner and his friends on more than one occasion had raped her for hours, then "urinated on her like trash. Teddy Kleiner, the son of Shaughnessy and Jack Kleiner, was 45 years old when he was fatally shot in 2019 in North Topeka. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, drank while Montgomery was in utero, leaving her with brain damage, court documents say. Court records describe her as a quiet loner who spent a lot of time reading books. The question is, should she be put to death for it. Let it be done: Bobbie Jo Stinnetts hometown waits as killers execution date nears. Montgomery was represented briefly after her arrest by Ron Wurtz, a now-retired attorney who has represented dozens of capital case defendants. And to not fail her.". Every time she has a birthday, it will also be the anniversary of the slaughter of her mother, Whitworth said. Patterson made a mistake by abandoning them to "that crazy lady," he said at Montgomery's sentencing hearing in 2007. 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. This is someone who was deeply remorseful, once she became appropriately medicated and had full contact with reality, although that is a situation that waxes and wanes.. A former paramedic who had watched the births of all three of his children, Strong also considered the baby's head to be unusually round. According to Gallup, while support for the death penalty in the US is at its lowest level in more than 50 years, 55% of Americans still believe it is an appropriate punishment for murder. "Maybe she could have been saved, too. But Lisa was broken. Lisa Montgomery be di 11th prisoner to receive di lethal injection since July when President Donald Trump, resume federal executions. When Stinnett answered the door, Montgomery overpowered the pregnant woman, strangled her with a piece of rope, and cut the baby out of her womb. Montgomery eventually divorced her first husband and married Kevin Montgomery. At least five times after she was sterilized, she told people that she was pregnant. She learned Oct. 16 that she had been scheduled to die by lethal injection on Dec. 8. "She always wanted to be a mom," says Baumli. The girls father was often away from the house for long periods, and Shaughnessy would have other men over. Ramachandran said women who sufferchildhood sexual abuse and whose minds revolve around babies and pregnancy are predisposed to suffering pseudocyesis, a condition in which they show physical symptoms of pregnancy, including enlargement of the breasts and stomach, morning sickness and cravings for certain foods. Dorr said she and Montgomery were in the same pod,in which inmates may gather outside their cells,in 2006 and 2007 at Leavenworth Detention Center, a for-profit federal facility in northeast Kansas. The five investigators who went to Montgomery's home that day recently began communicating with oneanother again, said Strong, who is now sheriff ofNodaway County, which includes Maryville and Skidmore. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. Is it ethical to execute a woman for actions that cannot be meaningfully separated from her mental illness and ugly history of abuse? However, calls for Trump to be merciful are hardly unanimous. In her opinion, Montgomerys extreme childhood trauma created the conditions for her to grow into an adult with a disconnected sense of her emotions, a tenuous hold on reality, a completely warped view of human relationships, and a split and damaged sense of herself and of her body, according to expert testimony she provided for the defense. But what happened at the modest clapboard house where Stinnett lived with her husband still haunts some of those involved in the investigation. Henry stressed that no one faces a death sentence linked to the 16 other U.S. cases from 1987 to2015 in which a woman has attacked a pregnant woman and her unborn child in an effort to take the childand ended up killing one or both. She testified as. She became involved with Kevin Montgomery, a divorced electrician with children of his own, and theymarried the following year. Even at the age of 8, Mattingly recalled being worried about what would happen to Montgomery without her there. Montgomery took Stinnetts baby, clamped the umbilical cord and used baby wipes to clean her. However, in the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri, where the crime was committed, there is little sympathy for that argument. He continued the cycle of abuse, rapes and beatings, which he sadistically videotaped. "I get these images in my head of [Bobbie Jo's mother] finding her daughter that way.". Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. Other friends of Kleiner, including a plumber and an electrician, raped her in that shed, Montgomery says, as a way of collecting payment for work done around the house. She faked pregnancies several times during her marriages to Carl Boman and Kevin Montgomery, court records say. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. Im not a psychiatrist, so I cant go any further than that.. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". She told Lisa she had to "earn her keep." Judy later. Her mouth was covered with duct tape so frequently that she learned not to cry. The U.S. has not executed a woman in 67 years. Lisa Montgomery, who endured years of sexual and physical abuse, murdered an expectant mother and took the baby. 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. Montgomery suffers from severe mental illness. For months, Montgomery had told her husband she was pregnant, even though she couldnt have any more children she had undergone a sterilization procedure before they met. As Fritz patted Montgomery on the back of her hand, Strong said he noticed dried blood and tissue embedded beneath her fingernails. In an interview with HuffPost her first ever Diane Mattingly, now 57 and a longtime state government employee living in Kentucky, described what it was like growing up in a home without love or affection. But the cousin, a sheriff's deputy, confessed to Montgomery's current legal team that he did nothing. Shaughnessy knew that Mattingly was sensitive about abandonment due to her severed relationship with her birth mother, and so she would strip Mattingly naked and push her outside the front door, pretending that she was kicked out. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in Miami, Okla. Patterson was the second of six husbands Shaughnessy . She missed the funeral because of it. At 1:31 AM on Wednesday, Lisa Montgomery was pronounced dead. But blind outrage over the brutality of the crime leaves little room for curiosity about why Montgomery committed the act, and whether she deserves the most severe penalty that exists in the criminal justice system. A longtime death penalty opponent, Wurtz said he considers it "idiotic" that Montgomery is to be executed. Judy drank throughout her pregnancy with Lisa and caused her to be born with brain damage. Kleiner told a reporter in 2005 that Shaughnessy's allegation was made up to support her divorce case and he was never found guilty of anything. Montgomery achieved considerable emotional growth once she was put in a stable environment where she felt safe and was receiving psychiatric medications for the first time, Dorrsaid. When I was eight and Lisa was four, social services came and rescued me from Judy, leaving Lisa and our other sister behind. 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. A few years after Mattingly was removed from the home, when Montgomery was in kindergarten, her mother remarried a man named Jack Kleiner. 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. 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. Montgomerys family tree, on both her mother and fathers side, is filled with psychiatric and neurologic impairment, including mood disorders, intellectual disability, PTSD and schizophrenia. Judy Shaughnessy, Montgomery ' s mother, raised Lisa in poverty and chaos, with multiple stepfathers and in dozens of different homes, according to scores of interviews and documents cited. 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 . 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. "Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband and raise two children who have hearts of gold," Mattingly wrote. When issuing his original stay of execution, the district. "Come on, baby. She had catfished Stinnett online under a fake name. It was a terrifying household, she says, where physical, psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of Judy Shaughnessy, Montgomery's mother, and her boyfriends was routine. Shaughnessy was cruel and violent to both girls, according to a sworn statement from Patterson, who reported feeling ashamed that he did not step in to stop the abuse. In recommending execution, the jury spelled out six aggravating factors supporting capital punishment. Around this time, Shaughnessy and Patterson separated, and Mattingly was removed from the house by child protective services an act which she credits for saving her life. She struggles to maintain her own hygiene, loses focus during conversations with others and has trouble planning simple tasks.". President-elect Joe Biden has already pledged to end death penalty proceedings, although he hasn't said when. They have been joined by a chorus of supportive voices from the legal field, including 41 former and current prosecutors, as well as human rights entities like the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. As the car drove further and further away, Mattingly began to vomit. 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.. "I don't think people understand how bad this was," Strong said. "Last year, we got flowers, and gave her a $100-plus gift card and then paid her water bill," says Jena Baumli. Many of the residents of Skidmore cite the details of the crime, and the amount of planning that went into it, as evidence that Montgomery was a calculating killer. Three federal inmates - Orlando Hall, Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard - have been put to death since the 3 November presidential election. For the rest of her life.. Montgomery contacted Stinnett, 23, after meeting her at a dog show earlier that year at Abilene, in north-central Kansas, where they posed with others in a photo. 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's second husband Kevin Montgomery, who lives near Melvern and remains married to her voiced support for her bid for clemency in a statement releasedthrough his wife's attorneys. And that would be from across a courtroom, where lawyers for the US government were trying to persuade a jury to sentence Montgomery to death. "There was so much pressure on her at that point," says Henry. She began prostituting Lisa to older men when Lisa was in her early teens. Montgomery then said she had given birth at home with help from two female friends and, later, that she had given birth alone. A herd of rat terriers greeted them. Meanwhile, her mother in 1985 had married Richard Boman, whose son Montgomery's stepbrother, Carl Boman got Montgomery pregnant. She meets with Montgomery regularly, she said. Montgomerys father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. She is permitted Sudoku puzzles and coloring pages andone book at a time. The couple returned to their home near Melvern, which was being watched by investigators working to identify the woman who had told Stinnett she was Darlene Fischer. She lapsed increasingly into mental illness and repeatedly faked pregnancy. Montgomery, 39, is accused of killing Bobbie Joe Stinnett, 23, and cutting the baby from her womb on Dec. 16, 2004, at Stinnett's home in Skidmore. "God, no, please," she said. While all five are haunted by Stinnett's murder, they are also "bonded for life," Strong said. When Montgomery was 15, Shaughnessy and Kleiner separated. When she called her attorneys that day, she could hardly speak. President Donald Trump can "break the chain of evil" experienced by Montgomery and other members of her family by granting clemency and commuting her sentence to life imprisonment, Mattingly said. She helped him escape in a dog crate and went to prison after a vehicle chase 12 days later ended with their capture. As Strong crossed the threshold, hesaw a TV set airing an Amber Alert about the abduction of Stinnett's baby. Montgomery used the fake name of "Darlene Fischer" and the chilling email address of fischer4kids@hotmail.com as she set up a meeting with Stinnett, according to the charging affidavit in thecase. "Oh, they're here, I've got to go," she said. Montgomery's cousin told her legal team that he lived with "regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa". On her way out the door, Mattingly said, Shaughnessy leaned over and told her it was all her fault she was being taken away. According to an interview with her father, Montgomery's mother Judy Shaughnessy drank heavily throughout her pregnancy, and their daughter was born with foetal alcohol syndrome. 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. She was often spaced out, appearing disconnected from reality. Lawyer Kelley Henry says one of the things that disturbs her most is that adults in positions of authority were told about what was going on but did nothing. Since they began, the federal government has executed seven people. The murder 16 years ago is never far from the minds of the town's residents. 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. She is the only woman on federal death row. He threatened to rape our little sister if Lisa resisted and said he would kill her whole family if she told anyone. Mrs. At one point, one of Montgomery's brothers found a home movie that showed Montgomery's husband raping and beating her. After she strangled Stinnett, Montgomery is alleged to have cut her open and stolen her unborn child Victoria, who survived the attack and is now living with her father. Lisa Montgomery, la nica mujer en el corredor de la muerte federal de Estados Unidos, fue ejecutada este mircoles por asesinato. This story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery's execution on 13 January. Read about our approach to external linking. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. "Today the death penalty has a face of my friend and I just can't be quiet about it," she said. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said. Montgomery is worried that her fellow inmates will have trouble coping with her upcoming execution, said her friendToby Dorr. The mom, Judy Shaughnessy, was so cruel she once beat the family dog to death in front of her kids, the petition states. Mattingly said her heart sank when she realized Montgomery wasn't coming with her. "Judy was manipulative and - I hate to use this word, but - evil. Her lawyers at the time also presented an alternative theory of the crime, which was that Montgomery's brother had actually committed the murder, even though he had an alibi. The father was a teacher. She has writtenopinion piecespublished in Elle and Newsweek. Montgomery also suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and major depression, jurors were told. 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