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Lisa Montgomery's lawyers seek to delay execution after contracting coronavirus

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Two lawyers representing Lisa Montgomery, the first woman to face the federal death penalty in nearly 70 years, have moved to delay her execution because they contracted the coronavirus while working on her case, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S.

District Court for the District of Columbia. The lawsuit blames Attorney General William Barr for scheduling the execution during a pandemic.

Montgomery, who was convicted 13 years ago of strangling an 8-month pregnant woman and cutting the baby from the womb to pass off as her own, is to be executed by lethal injection on Dec.

8 at the U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, Indiana. Barr directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons on Oct. 16 to set a date for the execution.

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