Kelly Gissendaner Executed In Georgia

This is the first time Georgia has sentenced anyone – man or woman – to death that was not actually, physically involved in the murder.

Georgia State Department of Corrections officials confirmed Gissendaner died at 12:21 a.m.

Kelly Renee Gissendaner was executed despite Pope Francis’ support for clemency, report the New York Times, the Associated Press and the Washington Post. All attempts failed.

At the trial a year later, it would be revealed that Kelly Gissendaner was having problems in her marriage and she conspired with her lover, Gregory Owen, to murder Douglas.

Although the couple was eventually arrested and charged with murder, neither Owen nor Gissendaner were willing to take responsibility for Douglas’ brutal death.

Owen, who carried out the fatal stabbing, is serving a life sentence after striking a plea bargain. “She even in her last minute spoke to the family, her in-laws, and asked for forgiveness and said that she is sorry she was the reason for the death of an awesome man”. A jury eventually sentenced her to death. “I guess it made me think she used her last opportunity, or her last words, well”. How complicit are we when we allow the state to take a life? “She is an extraordinary example of the rehabilitation that the corrections system aims to produce”.

Jackson noted that Gissendaner earned a theology degree while imprisoned.

The Pardons and Parole Board twice ruled against Gissendanner, but agreed to hear what it called “supplemental” information.

Board users have not been affected through inmate’s hottest participation in clemency, which often underlined Gissendaner’s pattern activity imprisonment and bad for planning her husband’s brutality in 1997.

The United States Supreme Court denied Gissendaner, 47, a third stay of execution late Tuesday. “Life imprisonment is a hidden death penalty”. “I pray for him”. They hoped it was news of clemency.

Board spokesman Steve Hayes declined to say who else met with board before the decision was made to move forward with the execution. Only the board members, attorneys and the children were present.

Yes, it’s true that Gissendaner was afforded rights that her victim was not. “I am so proud of you”, she said, according to Easley. “‘It hurts like hell to have your head bashed in with a baseball bat”.

Amid the postponement, Kelly’s attorneys, family, and supporters continued to plead for her life. As young children, they had to grapple with the murder of their father. It’s not clear if they also spoke on their mother’s behalf.

The children, after years of anger, had forgiven their mother and said she turned her life around. “You let my kids know I went out singing ‘Amazing Grace, ‘” Gissendaner said. “He would not want us to endure another devastating loss”.

Georgia had planned to execute her earlier this year, but both dates were scrapped – one due to bad weather, the other after the execution drugs looked “cloudy” – and her execution was postponed until the fall. He then forced his victim to drive him to a remote location.

Like the Gissendaner case as well, that person received a life sentence while Glossip was sentenced to death.