Posted on 09/30/2015 8:14:23 AM PDT by simpson96
Georgia has executed Kelly Renee Gissendaner with a fatal injection for the slaying of her husband, despite a plea for clemency from their children.
Last-minute appeals from her lawyers to the 11th US circuit court of appeals and the US supreme court as well as the Georgia board of pardons and paroles all failed.
Gissendaner, 47, died by injection of pentobarbital at 12:21am EDT on Wednesday at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification prison in Jackson, a prison spokeswoman said.
She sobbed as she said she loved her children and apologized to the family of her husband Douglas Gissendaner, who she was convicted of conspiring to murder, saying she hoped they could find some peace and happiness.
She also addressed her lawyer, Susan Casey, who was among the witnesses.
“I just want to say God bless you all and I love you, Susan. You let my kids know I went out singing Amazing Grace,” Gissendaner said, according to Associated Press.
"Dawn Skorcik, left, of Marietta, Ga., and Dawn Barber, of Powder Springs, Ga., comfort each other while protesting outside of Georgia Diagnostic Prison in Jackson, Ga."
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It would be fair, however, to ask what might have happened if Gissendaner had confessed her role too. She might then be in a similar position.
Usually in cases like this the left wants to say, “It is not justice. It is revenge,” or “It is not justice, it is retribution.”
I see nothing wrong with any of those. “Justice, revenge and retribution” are all good reasons.
country slow
Maybe all our previous permanent executions were a tad too harsh.
Her denial was so strong she ordered diet lemonade with her last meal.
The trouble is that the left is doing so. They are pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia, but anti-gun self defense and anti-capital punishment. This amounts to “Murder the innocent, but protect the savage.”
Right now, the SCOTUS may do something terrible. Their last three decisions about juvenile offenders have been to forbid the states from protecting themselves from them. The last of these, in 2012, was to forbid states from giving life sentences without the possibility of parole to juveniles.
But now, the latest case is of a former juvenile offender in prison for life without parole, who is asking the SCOTUS to retroactively require that such murderers in prison be offered parole. There are about 1,500 of these former juvenile convicts tried as adults.
And by the rules of many states, many of these killers have already served enough time so they would be released immediately. (The oldest of them subject to this would be 52 year old.)
Many of these *could* have faced the death penalty, had in another case the SCOTUS not forbade the death penalty even for the most heinous of juvenile offenders.
So with this as background, let me say I am not conflating self defense with vengeance, but that capital punishment is, on its own, part of self defense. Now, instead of the government turning off these violent savages, the public will be forced to do so to many of them, not out of vengeance, but self preservation.
And how many innocent lives will they ruin because the government is too weak to execute such monsters?
She may be the last. I have the suspicion that our SCOTUS, increasingly in love with international law, is one justice away from banning the death penalty outright.
Why do we kill people who kill people? So they don’t kill again. I don’t want to subject prison guards or anyone else to killers.
Predators on society must be put down and the threat removed.
Why did they execute her for 70 years? Seems like it would have taken only one.
I heard just a little coverage of it-guess what it was? When a group of people, majority white crowd, showed up to support th families, the media coverage I saw tried to imply that because it was a majority-white crowd, there to support the families of two innocent teens who had been sadistically tortured, raped, and murdered (Channon lay dying while the animals ate breakfast within her hearing ), that it was akin to a “KKK” rally!
Please explain to us all just exactly how “dead babies” relates to this news article in any way.
Amen!
I imagine she’s in Hades since the remorse wasn’t ever there. As a Real Child of God, you face your sin head-on and accept responsibility.
Son of Sam David Berkowitz, is a prime example of this—he never wants to be paroled.
17 years is too long. There should be time limits on appeals.
Actually, revenge served cold is a good meal in itself sometimes.
God will dish it out when the time comes. You can be if we are ever able to view that, it will be jaw-dropping.
They will pay for it sooner than later.
“Why do we kill people who kill people?”
We kill GUILTY people who have killed INNOCENT people. Seems the anti-capital punishment crowd forgets that distinction.
Those two liberal frogs crying over an evil murderer are actually just as evil as every murderer is.
Giving aid & comfort to evil means endorsing it.
Bet they don’t protest the abortion mills?
You're reversing the issue - it's not a matter of keeping Gissendaner alive, but also executing the actual, physical murderer as well as her.
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Its clear that midazolam is a ineffective drug for lethal injection, might i suggest using Carfentanil a opioid 100000 times stronger then morphine and is used to knock out stampeding elephants
oh sorry she was killed with pentobarbitual(a very effective one i might add) i thought i had read that the injection had been botched and assumed it was because they used midazolam again a drug not suited for that purpose
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