Category: federal execution

Federal Government Executes Corey Johnson, Virginia Killer of 7

Corey Johnson, the Virginia man who killed seven in a burst of violence in 1992, was executed by the federal government by lethal injection on Thursday.


Lisa Montgomery Executed for 2004 Murder, Cutting Baby From Womb

Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row in the United States, became the first woman to be executed by the federal government in 67 years.


Woman Set to Be Executed for Killing Woman, Cutting Baby From Womb

MISSION, Kansas—Becky Harper sobbed as she spoke to a Missouri dispatcher after stumbling across her expectant daughter in a pool of blood, her womb slashed open and the child she had been carrying missing. “It’s like she exploded or something,” Harper told the dispatcher on Dec. 16, 2004, during the desperate yet futile attempt to…