I wrote about Lisa Montgomery a while back. She is the first woman up for federal execution in almost 70 years. They have a new date set for her. The date is before Joe Biden takes office in 2021 (who is against the death penalty).
I still find it amazing that our government would execute a woman who is possibly developmentally disabled and had horrific abuse heaped upon her as she was growing up.
It seems like there has to be a better way. It makes me think of what the movie critic Roger Ebert once said. He was talking about a woman who was a serial killer who suffered many types of abuse when she was a child. His remark, in effect, was: what we do to children in secret, they will do openly to society.
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