WASHINGTON: The US Government has set the dates of two more executions this year which also includes that of the first woman since 1953.

Lisa Montgomery, who in 2004 was convicted of strangling a Missouri woman who was eight months pregnant, is expected to receive the lethal injection on December 8, said the Department of Justice.

According to CNN, the last woman executed by the US Government dates back to December 18, 1953, as per the US Bureau of prisons records, for kidnappi ..