GEORGIA — WSB-TV and CBS46 report the execution has been postponed…. again. This time due to cloudy medication, presumably the lethal injection liquid.
Also, her lawyers made last-minute arguments to the Supreme Court. Developing.
EARLIER REPORT: The state’s only female on death row, Kelly Renee Gissendaner, is scheduled to be executed tonight by lethal injection. Gissendaner is sentenced to die this evening at 7PM. local time.
Gissendaner was sentenced to death in 1998 for orchestrating the murder of her husband Doug.
Her boyfriend, who carried out the crime, testified against her in exchange for a life sentence.
The crime as described by Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens:
Owen and Kelly Gissendaner planned the murder for months. On February 7, 1997, she dropped Owen off at her home, gave him a nightstick and hunting knife and went out dancing with girlfriends.
Douglas Gissendaner also spent the evening away from home, going to a church friend’s house to work on cars. Owen lay in wait until he returned.
When Douglas Gissendaner came home around 11:30 p.m., Owen forced him by knifepoint into a car and drove him to a remote area of Gwinnett County.
There, Owen ordered his victim into the woods, took his watch and wallet to make it look like a robbery, hit him in the head with the nightstick and stabbed Douglas Gissendaner in the neck eight to 10 times.
Kelly Gissendaner arrived just as the murder took place but did not immediately get out of her car. She later checked on her husband to make sure he was dead, then Owen followed her in Douglas Gissendaner’s car to retrieve a can of kerosene that Kelly Gissendaner had left for him.
Owen set her husband’s car on fire in an effort to hide evidence, and left the scene with Kelly Gissendaner.
If executed, Gissendaner will be the 35th Georgia inmate put to death by lethal injection.
Her last meal request: Cornbread with a side of buttermilk, two Burger King Whoppers with cheese; two large orders of fries; cherry vanilla ice cream; popcorn; a salad with boiled eggs, tomatoes, bell peppers, onions, carrots, cheese and Newman’s Own buttermilk dressing; and lemonade.
