Posted on 09/29/2015 10:59:58 PM PDT by South40
Kelly Gissendaner, the only woman on Georgia's death row, was executed early Wednesday, authorities said.
The execution came after Georgia's Supreme Court, the U.S. Supreme Court and a federal appeals court all denied requests for a stay of execution.
Gissendaner, who was convicted of orchestrating her husband's murder almost 20 years ago, died by lethal injection at 12:21 a.m. Wednesday.
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But...the POPE!
“While not wishing to minimize the gravity of the crime for which Ms. Gissendaner has been convicted, and while sympathizing with the victims, I nonetheless implore you, in consideration of the reasons that have been presented to your board, to commute the sentence to one that would better express both justice and mercy,” Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the Vatican’s ambassador to the United States, wrote in a letter on Francis’ behalf.
Wow! That would be pretty hard to handle for most of them I would think. Although I just read two things about that. One my daughter showed me, some liberal crap about how the mentality needs to be “I am already dead” (was talking about global warming!) - so it didn’t matter if you die or not. (My daughter said “So what’s the point of life then!?”
The other was by the “Machine Gun Preacher” where his idea was “I don’t worry about dieing. My enemy can only kill my body. But my life will go on forever.”
Could have saved 20 years worth of incarceration cost had they done this when they should have.
Seriously, we have all seen cases that seem to cry out for the death penalty, although this one seems more like a commonplace homicided than the aggravated murder that usually results in such punishment. Uncertainty about factual guilt does not appear to apply in this case, as it does all too often when innocent defendants are convicted and executed. However, the issue of disparity surely does apply with respect to both the codefendant (who received a life sentence in exchange for his testimony, even though he was the one who actually committed the murder) and other defendants similarly situated to this one who received much lesser sentences elsewhere for virtually identical misconduct. This is in addition to the incompetence of counsel claim, which has such a high threshold that few defendants can meet the requirements, even with grossly deficient legal representation. There are few states, mostly in the South, that would execute a defendant under the facts and circumstances of this case, or in the case of the mentally retarded defendant who earlier this year was also executed in Georgia. As a southerner, it distresses me to see these states still adhering to some of the relatively primitive approaches to criminal justice that are being largely superceded elsewhere by more enlightened practices.
She drove her lover to the husband's house to wait for him, while she went clubbing to establish an alibi.
The lover put a knife to the victim's neck and forcde him to drive to the killing grounds (that's kidnapping, a felony, makes the subsequent killing felony murder)
When the deed was done (Using weapons supplied by her)she is sent a text message and goes to the scene, where she checks the victim is dead, and uses kerosene she brought with her to torch the husband's car.
She then gives the hitman a lift back and next day reports her husband missing.
Yep
bfl
Thank you for the facts of the case.
After reading this I have no doubt that this was justice too long delayed.
I am assuming the boyfriend did the smart thing and cut a deal to testify against the wife.
Why he went along with the murder plot I will never fathom.
I fail to see how anyone with the smallest smidgen of intelligence could be talked into killing for the object of his lust.
I imagine once she could no longer lead him around using his small head, his larger brain containing head took over.
So terrible.
Three families affected because a woman chose to have her husband murdered instead of just leaving him.
6. Do Not Murder
You Can Kill, but You Can't Murder
If asked to state this Commandment, most people would say "Do Not Kill." This is understandable because the classic King James Bible translates it this way. But the English language has changed since 1610. Furthermore, Hebrew has two words for killing just as English does. The correct translation, as Dennis Prager explains, is "Do Not Murder." Once you grasp this, the meaning of the commandment changes entirely.
So now there are ZERO women on Georgia’s death row?
Isn’t that discrimination somehow?
The Pope laments the legal execution of this woman, but lunches with the Castro brothers who personally sent thousands to firing squads with no trial including pregnant women and priests and nuns
There is an issue here, though. Not saying she didn’t deserve what she got but the actual killer got life with the chance for parole. I would have rather seen equal punishment ... they both should have fried.
” ... we have all seen cases that seem to cry out for the death penalty, although this one seems more like a commonplace homicide[d] than the aggravated murder that usually results in such punishment.”
How did you determine that the circumstances of the case (and especially the wife’s behavior before, during, and after the murder she arranged) were less than “aggravated”?
We are one SCOTUS vote from capital punishment going away.
She WAS offered a deal similar to the one her codefendent took but thought she would beat the charges at trial. Two bad decisions resulted in her execution. She CHOSE her fate both times.
I support the death penalty.
I am always uneasy about executing mothers.
I think a life sentence would have sufficed in this particular case.
This woman found God and is now hopefully with Him in His Kingdom.
This is sad all away around.
She must have had a really bad lawyer if the guy who actually did the killing is up for parole next year.
Twenty years.. at how many dollars a year????
I reluctantly support the death penalty. When I start to be concerned about it, I remind myself that the death penalty can be effectively abolished in the US— just don’t commit premeditated murder, and you have nothing to worry about.
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