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Hello.
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Thanks very much for joining us here on BBC World News.
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We start in the United States, where the execution of Lisa Montgomery has being carried out.
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This just a day after a US judge postponed ID, arguing that she was too mentally ill to understand why she was being executed.
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Uh, that decision was overturned by the Supreme Court.
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Lisa Montgomery was sentenced to death in 2000 and seven for strangling a pregnant woman in Missouri before cutting out and kidnapping her unborn baby.
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She's the first woman to be put to death since 1953.
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Her lawyers and supporters had appealed to President Trump for clemency.
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Our correspondent, Namir Iqbal, reports from Indiana, where the execution took place on the roadside opposite the prison.
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Many came to have their say.
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Since last summer, the town of terror Hoat has seen nine people sent to their death.
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It's after federal executions were resumed by the government for the first time in nearly two decades, and now Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, is the latest.
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In a statement, her lawyer, Kelly Henry, said the craven bloodlust off a failed administration was on full display tonight.
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Everyone who participated in the execution of Lisa Montgomery should feel shame.
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Our Constitution forbids the execution of a person who was unable to rationally understand her execution.
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The current administration knows this, and they killed her anyway.
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Her lawyers and advocates say Montgomery wasn't the worst of society but the most broken, and that as a mentally ill victim of childhood abuse, she deserved mercy.
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Who should have been kept behind bars for the rest of her life that for the shared by people here, I just don't think that we have any right to kill somebody else.
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Nobody is saying that they didn't commit these crimes, and I, and most of people aren't saying that they committed them.
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I believe in a loving god that it has forgiveness, and I believe that we should not be killing people.
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The only people gathered outside the jail or those who believe Lisa Montgomery should not have been put to death on that it wasn't up to the government to decide.
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But we've seen people driving past shouting abuse at the protesters because many think that capital punishment should exist for a shocking crime like this.
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In 2000 and four, Montgomery traveled from her home in Kansas to Missouri to visit Bobbie Jo Stinnett, who was heavily pregnant.
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She strangled her and kidnapped the baby from her womb.
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The baby survived.
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Bobbie Jo Stinnett bled to death.
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For those close to Mrs Stinnett, the death of Montgomery is the only justice they want, including the police officer who tracked her down.
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This case haunts those of us that worked it.
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This is a devil come back toe earth disguises, leasing the government for those who sat here into the night.
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They hoped Montgomery's fate would have been decided next week by the new president.
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Joe Biden has indicated he would abolish the federal death penalty, but time ran out.
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Closing the page on the tortured life and horrific crime off Lisa Montgomery.
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No mere Iqbal.