By Jay Croft, CNN Updated 1502 GMT (2302 HKT) October 17, 2020 A sign directs visitors to the entrance of the Federal Correctional Complex Terre Haute in Indiana in 2019. Two more killers being held there are scheduled to die in December. A sign directs visitors to the entrance of the Federal Correctional Complex Terre Haute in Indiana in 2019. Two more killers being held there are scheduled to die in December. (CNN)The federal government, continuing its string of executions this year, has set the dates for two more, including the first woman in more than six decades. Lisa Montgomery in December 2004 Lisa Montgomery in December 2004 Lisa Montgomery is expected to receive lethal injection on December 8, the Justice Department says. In 2004, she was convicted of strangling a Missouri woman who was eight-months pregnant, then cut out and kidnapped the baby. Death Penalty Fast Facts The last woman executed by the US government was Bonnie Brown Heady on Dec. 18, 1953, according to US Bureau of Prisons records, for kidnapping and murder. Also in 1953, Ethel Rosenberg was famously executed for espionage, along with her husband, Julius. Montgomery's execution will be the Justice Department's eighth this year after a 17-hear hiatus. The US executed Christopher Vialva for a crime he committed at 19 years old. Scientists say research on brain development makes that wrong The US executed Christopher Vialva for a crime he committed at 19 years old. Scientists say research on brain development makes that wrong The ninth execution will be Brandon Bernard, who was convicted of killing two youth ministers on a military reservation in Texas in 1999. He is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on December 10. Bernard's co-defendant, Christopher Vialva, was executed on September 22. Both Montgomery and Bernard are held at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. Before this year, the federal government had not executed anyone since 2003, and just four people since the 1960, Bureau of Prisons records show. Christina Carrega contriubuted to this report. 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October 17, 2020

By Jay Croft, CNN

Updated 1502 GMT (2302 HKT) October 17, 2020

A sign directs visitors to the entrance of the Federal Correctional Complex Terre Haute in Indiana in 2019. Two more killers being held there are scheduled to die in December.

(CNN)The federal government, continuing its string of executions this year, has set the dates for two more, including the first woman in more than six decades.

Lisa Montgomery in December 2004

Lisa Montgomery is expected to receive lethal injection on December 8, the Justice Department says. In 2004, she was convicted of strangling a Missouri woman who was eight-months pregnant, then cut out and kidnapped the baby.

Death Penalty Fast Facts

The last woman executed by the US government was Bonnie Brown Heady on Dec. 18, 1953, according to US Bureau of Prisons records, for kidnapping and murder.

Also in 1953, Ethel Rosenberg was famously executed for espionage, along with her husband, Julius.

Montgomery's execution will be the Justice Department's eighth this year after a 17-hear hiatus.

The US executed Christopher Vialva for a crime he committed at 19 years old. Scientists say research on brain development makes that wrong

The ninth execution will be Brandon Bernard, who was convicted of killing two youth ministers on a military reservation in Texas in 1999. He is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on December 10.

Bernard's co-defendant, Christopher Vialva, was executed on September 22.

Both Montgomery and Bernard are held at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Before this year, the federal government had not executed anyone since 2003, and just four people since the 1960, Bureau of Prisons records show.

Christina Carrega contriubuted to this report.