Posted on 09/29/2015 11:49:31 AM PDT by ScottWalkerForPresident2016
Georgia's parole board declined Tuesday to commute the death sentence of Kelly Renee Gissendaner— even after Pope Francis called for a halt to her execution.
Gissendaner, who was sentenced to death for the 1997 murder of her husband at the hands of her lover, is set to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. ET.
Pope Francis, who called for a ban on the death penalty during his visit to the United States last week, asked the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles to spare her life, through a letter written by a local archbishop.
"While not wishing to minimize the gravity of the crime for which Ms. Gissendander has been convicted, and while sympathizing with the victims, I nonetheless implore you, in consideration of the reasons that have been expressed to your board, to commute the sentence to one that would better express both justice and mercy," Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano wrote.
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That’s not nice to Catholics here
Lib pope is fair enough
Not picking a fight....don’t mean it that way
We don’t grasp what the pope is to them
She was offered a similar deal, but chose to go to trial. She gambled and lost. Her boyfriend, who was the actual killer, will be eligible for parole in 2022.
**** “She was offered a similar deal, but chose to go to trial” ****
The way Divorces work she probably thought she was gonna walk.
Cheers to all of the EX-Husbands out in FR land, it won’t get your Family, Life, Money, Property or Happiness back... but here is one bitch that lost.
I will process a couple of beers in celebration
My point in the discussion was to point out the one-sided nature of the previous comments.
There is a tendency among some Freepers to make judgmental claims about the Catholic Church without taking the similar view of the history of their own religious sects.
Likewise, there is currently a knee-jerk reaction to anything and everything Pope Francis does and says, even when it upholds the sanctity of marriage, the dignity of life, and living the beatitudes.
Yep. She had her husband killed, and the jury thought it was cruel enough to give her the death penalty.
The murder:
http://www.cbs46.com/story/28194208/detective-recounts-how-he-put
Gissendaner executed after five hour delay:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/29/us/georgia-execution-kelly-gissendaner/
In my state, we do both - we pay the expenses for a death penalty trial, and still pay for lifetime imprisonment, because nobody has been executed in 50 years.
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