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."
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Book ‘em Danno......Murder 1.
Good grief. That photo. Where is the outrage about dead babies? What about the victim?
Her husband deserved to die I guess, right?
Justice delayed, is justice denied.
I read some of the details about the real victim.....her husband.
His last hours had to have been terrifying.
Justice delayed, but Georgia got it right.
When a person makes a jail conversion the easiest way to determine if it was a real conversion is their stance on their punishment. Real Christians accept responsibility for their actions and do not shy away from the consequences.
We really need to bring back public hanging. This killing them out of sight, I find disturbing. Plus it’s boring.
You see that sign?
You’ll probably see it again soon the next time a terrorist cuts a Christians head off, too.
We “kill people who kill people” to get rid of them, so they won’t kill again, as a warning to other to not be so selfish or let your passions control you, as poor moral compensation to the loved ones who experienced a horrible and tragic loss, and to remove evil from our midst and that’s just off the top of my head.
Damn! They executed her for seventy years? They must have been really pissed at her!
Fitting; the husband’s last-minute appeals were denied too.
Where is justice when the five animals who raped, tortured and murdered Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom are still alive?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom
If this woman were black she would still be alive.
Gissendaner was convicted of conspiring with her lover, Gregory Owen, who ambushed her husband, forced him to drive to a remote area and stabbed him repeatedly in February 1997. Owen and Gissendaner then met up and set fire to the dead man’s car.Owen pleaded guilty and testified against Gissendaner, who did not take part in the stabbing. He is serving a life sentence and becomes eligible for parole in 2022.
I guess it was a judicial tradeoff but something seem amiss when the perpetrator who did the stabbing is still alive.
The left is outraged over executions of murderers, but wants murders of babies to continue.
Thank you for posting that link.
It has to be the most blatant example of non media coverage there is.
I live in Knoxville and, of course, there was media coverage here but my step son who lives 90 miles away in Chattanooga said there was no media coverage at all there. The same is true of Nashville media and, of course, national media.
It was a truly sickening crime made worse by a degenerate, drug addicted judge.
Indeed.
It’s important to remember that capital punishment is the flip side of gun liberty. Leftists who oppose one generally oppose the other, in their quest to preserve the lives of violent, predatory and murderous criminals.
Gun liberty is the common man’s capital punishment, while defending himself, his family, and society as a whole. As such, lawyer’s tricks, endless appeals, squishy judges and weak politicians cannot stop a bullet from ending the life of a savage menace, a rabid dog, a violent psychotic, or someone reduced to being a vicious animal with drugs and alcohol.
Since to a great extent, the government cannot bring itself to protect the citizenry from such monsters, the citizenry must do so themselves, despite the impassioned pleas of those who act outside of reason or common sense, for weird political philosophies and religious beliefs.
These guys too. Though they did execute one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donalsonville,_Georgia#The_Alday_Murders
It is wrong to conflate self defense with vengeance, even though the common concept is to continually do it. Such a conflation starts a slippery slope, leading to ambushes and enticements.
Georgia has done its duty...
Now it’s time for Tennessee to step up to the plate”
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