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  • back.

  • Oh, yeah.

  • Mhm.

  • It actually is torture.

  • What she went through as a child to call it abuse is really to not capture how horrific her upbringing Waas.

  • People have to understand that Children that go through childhood abuse, it changes who they are.

  • I went through that, and it took me years and years to overcome it.

  • But I also had a good foundation that helped me overcome it.

  • Lisa did not have that foundation and she was broken.

  • Yeah, it is not about getting her out of prison.

  • It's not about excusing the crime.

  • It's about, you know, explaining why it is that this is a situation where President Trump should exercise mercy.

  • Mrs.

  • Montgomery is the only person who has committed this sort of crime to be facing execution.

  • And that is because other prosecutors recognized that women who commit these crimes typically have a very serious history of mental illness and trauma, as Lisa does.

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