Georgia board rejects female death row inmate's clemency bid

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Georgia's parole board denied a request for clemency by the lone woman on the state's death row, just hours before her scheduled execution on Tuesday for her role in her husband's murder.

Barring a last-minute court stay, Kelly Gissendaner, 47, is to be put to death by injection at 7 p.m. EDT at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.

The state's Board of Pardons and Paroles met Tuesday to decide whether its refusal earlier this year to commute Gissendaner's sentence to life in prison should stand.

Board members were not swayed by the inmate's latest appeal for clemency, which emphasized Gissendaner's model behavior in prison and remorse for plotting her husband's murder in 1997.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/georgias-only-female-death-row-inmate-asks-state-160326051.html

[Mnemosyne]

1. I imagine she is gone now. What an unforgiving country we live in.

No redemption, ever in this country. How sad...

[puzzledeagle]

2. The cornerstone of a government's ultimate power is its monopoly on violence

[Gore1FL]

3. We need to end the death penalty in this country. n/t

[d_legendary1]

4. Supposedly the Pope made a plea to spare her life

But Georgia being Georgia needs to kill some people to send a message.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/lethal-injection/pope-urges-halt-execution-georgia-woman-kelly-gissendaner-n435566

[patsimp]

5. I Deplore the taking of Life

but this women had her husband killed - let's try to imagine the horror and treachery he would have felt when she and/or her boyfriend killed him.

Of course she was a good role model in prison. I'm sure she was a good wife for a time too.