Georgia executes Kelly Gissendaner after Supreme Court denies stay requests

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Georgia executes Kelly Gissendaner after Supreme Court denies stay requests

By Mark Berman September 30 at 12:39 AM

The only woman on Georgia’s death row was executed by lethal injection early Wednesday morning following a series of legal challenges that delayed her execution by several hours.

Kelly Gissendaner, who was convicted of convincing her boyfriend to murder her husband, was the first woman executed in Georgia since World War II. Her execution was announced by corrections officials shortly before 12:30 a.m. local time.

Georgia had intended to execute Gissendaner earlier this year, but its two planned attempts were scrapped — one due to bad weather, the other after the execution drugs looked “cloudy” — and her execution was postponed until the fall.

On Tuesday afternoon, despite an appeal from Pope Francis, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles denied without explanation Gissendaner’s request for them to reconsider her case.

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[Liberal_in_LA]

1. Barbaric

[dhill926]

3. Yep…

[spanone]

2. georgia must be so proud

now two people are dead

[840high]

4. One because of her actions.

[Orrex]

7. And one because of the state's actions

Killing a person who has been rendered harmless, and who is no longer a threat, is not morally superior to cold-blooded, premeditated murder.

[840high]

10. I used to think like you in

my younger days. Now I believe that if you kill not in self-defense you should know you might have to pay with your life.

[spanone]

11. still two dead

[840high]

15. Tell the families.

[spanone]

16. are they better off? killing is killing.

[Orrex]

12. Funny, but I used to think like you in my younger days.

As I've matured, I came to recognize capital punishment as the barbaric and primitive ritual that it is.

It is inconsistently prescribed and arbitrarily enforced, and I have never seen an argument in favor of its moral justification that didn't amount to "the law says it's ok."

I respect that others do not share this view, but I am gratified to have evolved to this position over time.

[840high]

14. We each have our views.

[kcr]

18. Yep. People have views.

But some views are pretty bad. That's how Republicans happen.

[BuddhaGirl]

19. State-sponsored murder

Hooray for Georgia!

[bermudat]

5. I don't understand, why did the actual murderer get life without parole

and she get the death penalty?

[Egnever]

6. Because he plead guilty

She didn't

[edhopper]

8. Because capital punishment

is so fair and only used for the worst offenders.

[Jake Stern]

9. Two reasons

1. He took a deal, she went to trial.

2. From my limited understanding the law basically viewed the boyfriend as her weapon.

She used his affection for her as a tool to get him to kill. He wanted her to divorce the husband but in her twisted mind that wasn't an option.

No, she shouldn't have been murdered by the state BUT she shouldn't have had a chance at parolr either.

[vankuria]

13. Sounds like she was reformed

was a model prisoner, helped other inmates, got a theology degree and felt remorse for her crime. What's the point of rehabilitating prisoners, just to kill them off?

[MineralMan]

17. We must work to end capital punishment nationwide.

Work to elect Democrats to legislative offices in your state and in Congress. We can do this, but not without a lot of hard work.