A woman who killed a mother-to-be and kidnapped her baby after cutting him from his mother’s womb was sentenced to death in the state of Missouri.

The sentence was handed down on Friday by Judge Gary Fenner, who took into consideration the death penalty recommendations coming from the jury in the case of the Missouri woman identified as Lisa Montgomery, who murdered her mother-to-be, Bobbie Jo Stinnett.

“It is the judgment of the court that Lisa M. Montgomery is sentenced to death,” said U.S. District Judge Gary Fenner according to The Kansas City Star.

Ms. Montgomery, 39 years of age from Melvern, Kansas, was charged and convicted in October for kidnapping stemming from the murder she committed on Dec. 16, 2004,

Police officers found Ms. Montgomery at her farmhouse and put the woman under arrest after she showed them the kidnapped baby and said she was her own.

Montgomery becomes the third woman on federal death row.

Stinnett was 23 year old and was eight months pregnant when Montgomery strangled her. While killing her she also cut her womb and took her baby. She then fled to Kansas with the baby. She then told her husband that she had given birth to the child at a Topeka clinic. The father took custody of the child Victoria Jo Stinnett.

The two women had met through an Internet Web site forum for rat terrier breeders.