STRANGE MARRIAGE
'WOMB Raider' Lisa Montgomery is set to be the first female to be executed in almost 70 years.
killed on December 16, 2004 by .
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Who is Lisa Montgomery's husband Kevin?
Kevin is the husband of convicted killer Lisa Montgomery, whom he married in 2000.
According to written statement provided in Montgomery's trail, Kevin arrived home from work in Melvern, and got a call from Montgomery.
Montgomery, who previously told her husband and others she was pregnant, told her husband that she was shopping in Topeka when she went into labor and delivered a baby at a birthing center there.
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Kevin said he drove his two step-children to Topeka and met his wife and the baby, who was later named by her father.
Montgomery and the baby were inside her red Toyota Corolla, in a parking lot of a Long John Silver's restaurant..
The five then returned to their home in Melvern, with the baby riding in the car.
Kevin and his wife had breakfast the next morning at a local café, where they showed off the baby girl dressed in a pink bonnet, the owner Kathy Sage later told .
The couple introduced the baby as “Abigail,” Sage said.
On December 17, 2004, Montgomery was arrested at her farmhouse in Melvern, and claimed the newborn was hers.
Authorities questioned Kevin, but concluded he wasn't involved or .
"The only thing I can think of is she wanted a baby so bad," about Montgomery at the time.
"I didn't even get to say goodbye."
Kevin remains married to Montgomery and supports her bid for clemency, he said in a statement issued by her attorneys to the Capital-Journal.
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When is Lisa Montgomery due to be executed?
- days before , an opponent of the death penalty, takes office as the next president of the .
Montgomery is one of three federal inmates scheduled to die that week.
Cory Johnson and Dustin Higgs are on January 14 and 15.
Biden's inauguration is taking place on January 20.
The Justice Department has resumed executions in summer 2020 after they were stopped for 17 years.
Eight people have been executed since July.
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Where will the execution take place?
Justice Department officials said Montgomery will be executed by the state at US Penitentiary Terre Haute in Indiana.
She is the only woman on federal death row in the state.
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