America carries out the first death sentence against a woman in seventy years to Lisa Montgomery

The US Department of Justice announced that it has set the eighth day of December, as the date for the implementation of the first judgment issued by a federal court to execute a woman in nearly 70 years. 

The ministry said in a statement, on Friday, that Lisa Montgomery, convicted of strangling a pregnant woman in Missouri in 2004, will be executed by lethal injection in Terre Haute prison, Indiana. 

The Death Penalty Information Center says the last woman executed by federal court decision was Bonnie Heidi, who was placed in a Missouri gas chamber in 1953