Several days ago I wrote about Kelly Gissendaner, the only woman on Georgia’s death row. She was scheduled to be executed last Tuesday night after sitting on death row for 20 years and in spite of the fact that she has saved innumerable lives during those 20 years. Kelly had been found guilty of planning…
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Have You Heard of Kelly Gissendaner? My State Is Putting Her To Death on Tuesday
That’s right. The State of Georgia is planning, for the first time since 1945, to execute a woman, a woman whose crime actually was carried out by someone else. Kelly Gissendaner was convicted of planning the 1997 murder of her husband and was sentenced to death. The man who actually committed the crime, Kelly’s boyfriend at…