Posted on 03/02/2015 9:03:22 PM PST by CorporateStepsister
The execution of the only woman on Georgia's death row has been postponed at the last minute for a second time in less than a week - because the drug used in the lethal injection she was scheduled to receive was 'cloudy'.
Kelly Renee Gissendaner, 46, was due to be given an injection of pentobarbital at a prison in Jackson at 7pm on Monday in retribution for plotting the murder of her husband in 1997.
But after officials observed the drug to be used in the execution had a 'cloudy' appearance, they postponed her death until a future, unspecified date 'out of caution', according to 11Alive.
The decision came as the US Supreme Court considered whether or not to grant Gissendaner a stay of execution after a last-ditch appeal for clemency was denied by state officials.
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Another thought: If the State of Georgia wanted to torment Mrs Gissendaner, they could hardly do better than these repeated last-minute stays of execution.
That is what makes this so warped. Of course he would testify against her for life in prison, with possible parole. Anyone with sense would.
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