U.S. to execute first woman in 67 years for strangling acquaintance, kidnapping unborn child

A woman convicted of strangling a pregnant woman and kidnapping her unborn child is scheduled to be put to death in December in the first federal execution of a woman in nearly 70 years, officials said Friday.

Lisa Montgomery is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Dec. 8 at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., the Justice Department announced. A federal jury in Kansas City convicted her in 2007 of kidnapping resulting in death and unanimously recommended a death sentence.