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U.S. Schedules First Execution of a Woman in Nearly 70 Years Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, was convicted of killing a pregnant woman and attempting to pass the baby off as her own. Lisa Montgomery is being held at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind. Only around 2 percent of inmates on death row are women. Credit... Michael Conroy/Associated Press A date has been set for the execution of a Kansas woman who was convicted of killing a pregnant woman and cutting the baby from her abdomen in what would be the first federal execution of a woman in nearly 70 years, officials said on Friday. The inmate, Lisa Montgomery of Melvern, Kan., was  convicted  of kidnapping resulting in death by a jury in federal court in Missouri in 2008. Her death, by lethal injection, is scheduled for Dec. 8 at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Ind. Federal executions have not taken place in nearly 20 years, but Ms. Montgomery’s would be the ninth federal ...