A US appeals court has lifted the deferral of execution for the only woman waiting on death row in federal prison.

Sentenced to lethal injection,

Lisa Montgomery

saw her sentence suspended last week.

Now, the new date for his execution has been set for next January 12, eight days before the new US president, Joe Biden, takes office.

If the death sentence goes as planned, Montgomery will be the first federal prisoner to be executed in nearly 70 years.

Montgomery was convicted of strangling an eight-month pregnant woman, whose womb was cut open to keep her baby, in Missouri in 2004. She was sentenced to capital punishment in 2007. The defendant's attorneys alleged that she suffered from brain damage. caused by the beatings she received in childhood and that she should not be sentenced to death.

Following yesterday's announcement, Montgomery's attorney,

Meaghan VerGow

, said she intends to appeal the entire decision of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, according to Europa Press.

VerGow insisted that the woman suffers from a serious mental disorder after years of being abused by her parents.

"Given everything we know about Lisa Montgomery, about her mental illness and about the life of horrible trauma she has suffered, we do not see a logical reason for her execution," VerGow said in a statement, which asked US President Donald Trump, issue a clemency order.

The United States resumed executions at the federal level, independent of those carried out in each state, last July by order of the country's attorney general, William Barr, after

a 16-year moratorium

.

Barr argued that federal executions are contemplated by Congress and are directed against "those responsible for the murder, and at times, torture and rape, of the most vulnerable in society, children and the elderly."

If pending executions go ahead,

the Trump presidency will become the highest death sentence in more than a century

.

Biden, who for decades was a harsh defender of capital punishment as a senator from Delaware, has vowed that during his presidential term he will seek a way to end federal executions.

The last woman to be executed in the US was

Bonnie Heady

, who died in the gas chamber in Missouri in 1953, according to data from the Center for Information on the Death Penalty cited by the BBC.

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