Nobody is safer. Nothing but bloody vengeance was achieved. Nothing has been deterred. On the earthly scale of things, it was a worthless counter-productive killing of a penitent Christian who had been forgiven her sins by Protestors gather outside of Georgia Diagnostic Prison in Jackson, before the execution of Kelly Gissendaner. (PA). Kelly Gissendaner was … Read more
(CNN) — Not since Lena Baker, an African-American convicted of murder in Randolph County, has Georgia executed a woman. The state is scheduled to snap that 70-year streak on Wednesday. Kelly Renee Gissendaner. Image: Ben Gray / AP Images. Death penalty opponents gather on the steps of the State Capitol in Atlanta, GA, Monday, March … Read more
(CNN) — Not since Lena Baker, an African-American convicted of murder in Randolph County, has Georgia executed a woman. The state is scheduled to snap that 70-year streak on Wednesday. Kelly Renee Gissendaner. Kelly Gissendaner was sentenced to death for masterminding a plot to have her then-boyfriend kill her husband, Doug Gissendaner, in Feb. 1997. … Read more
Kelly Gissendaner is scheduled to be killed on Monday, and there is not much that can be done to stop it. I interacted with Kelly only once, and only briefly. These were the words I said to her: "This is the body of Christ, which is Kelly Gissendaner was sentenced to death for masterminding a … Read more
(CNN) — Kelly Renee Gissendaner's supporters want last week's postponement of her execution made permanent. It doesn't seem likely, given the rulings by the highest state and federal courts and Georgia's State Board of A death row inmate who made headlines with her massive junk food last meal request has been spared execution – AFTER … Read more