Trump administration condemned over Lisa Montgomery execution

Administration accused of unnecessary and vicious use of authoritarian power'

A lawyer has accused the Trump administration of unnecessary and vicious use of authoritarian power" after a woman on death row was executed early on Wednesday, the first federal execution of a woman in almost seven decades.

Lisa Montgomery, 52, was pronounced dead at 1.31am on Wednesday after receiving a lethal injection. She died at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, after the US supreme court lifted a stay of execution and rejected a request from her legal team for delay.