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US carries out its first execution of female inmate since 1953

An undated file image of Lisa Montgomery. [AP, File]

A Kansas woman was executed Wednesday for strangling an expectant mother in Missouri and cutting the baby from her womb, the first time in nearly seven decades that the U.S. government has put to death a female inmate.

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