Should A Woman On Death Row Be Spared Today??

Sgt Tom Cunnally
She's dead so it's a null issue now. But based on everything I've read and my own personal opinion yes she deserved to die.

I for one am against prison overcrowding. One way to reduce this is to repeal sentences for people convicted of victimless crimes such as drug use.
Another way is to speed up the death row process. How many resources are used and how much money is spent on a single death row inmate who can sometimes sit on death row for 17 years (as Gissendaner did)?

ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles plans to meet to consider new information in support of clemency for the lone woman on the state's death row.

Kelly Renee Gissendaner is set for execution Tuesday at 7 p.m. The 47-year-old was convicted of murder in the February 1997 slaying of her husband. She conspired with her lover, who stabbed Douglas Gissendaner to death.

A parole board statement said the board's members have reviewed a second request from Gissendaner's lawyers to reconsider their February decision denying clemency. The release says they're holding a meeting at 11 a.m. to gather additional information from Gissendaner supporters.

Two of Gissendaner's three children previously addressed the board. A lawyer for Gissendaner said her oldest son now wants to ask the board to spare her life.

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I guess there are still some questions since I heard yesterday morning that she was granted a one week stay but we will see.

Sounds like she has it coming.

No, death row should have nothing to do with gender.

Nope.

ATLANTA -- A federal judge Monday morning denied a request to stay the execution of Kelly Gissendaner, Georgia's only woman on Death Row, who is scheduled to die Tuesday evening for her part in the murder of her husband.

Gissendaner's attorneys immediately moved to appeal U.S. District Judge Thomas W. Thrash's ruling, in which he refused to reconsider an earlier lawsuit declaring lethal injection a form of cruel and unusual punishment.

Gissendaner was sentenced to death in November 1998 for recruiting her boyfriend, Gregory Bruce Owen, to kill her husband.

Owen, who stabbed Douglas Gissendaner to death in February 1997, is serving a life sentence and will be up for parole in eight years. He testified against Gissendaner, telling a jury how the mother of three carefully planned her husband's death.

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Here's a comment from the link provided by Sergeant Aaron Kennedy:

"The clemency case is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court." & they have @ 2 1/2 hours to make a decision ..

Sgt Tom Cunnally was the woman thinking about her children dealing with the death of their father when she had her side piece kill him? Kill her. Make sure those kids get excellent therapy, there is no way that this doesn't fuck up a child in the head.

ATLANTA — Two influential voices have joined the chorus of those asking that Kelly Renee Gissendaner be allowed to live. Gissendaner, convicted of recruiting her boyfriend to kill her husband, is set to be executed Tuesday in Jackson.

Her execution has been postponed since March when officials cited problems with the lone drug that would be used for the lethal injection.

Since then there have been vigils and rallies asking the state to spare Gissendaner. Her children have made a video asking for mercy for their mother. Then Saturday former State Corrections Deputy Director Vanessa O’Donnell and Norman Fletcher, former chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, joined the effort, asking the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles for clemency.

Gissendaner, the only woman on death row in Georgia, was sentenced in 1998 for recruiting Gregory Owen to kill her husband, Douglas Gissendaner.