(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. A group of clergy, family, friends and supporters gathered Sunday at the William Cannon Chapel in Decatur to
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
#ATLANTA — Kelly Gissendaner was, is and always will be responsible for her husband's murder. No one gathered at Emory University's Cannon Chapel on Sunday night — 23 hours before her scheduled execution — posited otherwise. #The vigil drew in
The only woman on Georgia's death row was still waiting late Monday with her execution on hold to hear whether the U.S. Supreme Court would give her a reprieve. The Supreme Court was still reviewing last-minute arguments well after Kelly Gissendaner's