Gissendaner was convicted in 1998 of recruiting her lover to kill her husband, Doug Gissendaner, 30. Her boyfriend, Gregory Owen, testified against her as part of a plea bargain that landed him a life sentence but spared him from the death penalty.

Prosecutors said Gissendaner, a mother of three from Auburn, wanted her husband dead so she could profit from two $10,000 life insurance policies and the couple's $84,000 house.

She dropped off Owen at her Auburn house before going out with friends on Feb. 7, 1997. Owen surprised 30-year-old Doug Gissendaner and forced him at knifepoint to drive to a remote area in eastern Gwinnett near the Walton County line.

Owen forced the victim to walk 100 yards into the woods and get down on his knees. He beat him in the head with a nightstick, stabbed him in the neck and back several times and left. The wife later helped her boyfriend set the car on fire to destroy evidence.

im not going to argue the d.p.

Maybe I'm just thick-headed.

I'll admit I'm not a scholar of DP law - I think it should never be used at all, for a variety of reasons, although in some cases I'll admit I don't shed many tears - but I thought it was supposed to only be used in certain kinds of cases: "heinous" crimes, and killing a police officer, for example.

If you come to me and offer me a million dollars and other inducements to kill a particular person, it is still up to me to choose whether or not to do it, and how to do it (cruelly vs quickly). So doing the deed is still on me. And you didn't do anything "heinous" beyond recruiting someone to murder - you didn't actually DO a "heinous" crime unless you participated in the physical act.

Yeah, this is a big problem I have in both this and the Glossip case. Beyond the basic wrongness of the DP to begin with. And yeah Glossip may very well be innocent. I didn't read the details about this so have no idea how they "proved" that this woman recruited the guy to do the murder, or what is the likelihood of innocence. Still it was on HIM that he actually did it.

Also with a death sentence but most likely innocent.

I don't see a death penalty against a woman to be worse than one against a man.

life without parole, because she has been a model prisoner and completed some kind of theology program which has enabled her to counsel other inmates. She was helping people. Those people probably will be deprived of such help now. Behavior in prison should count for something. If the reverse were true and she was disruptive they'd make sure there were consequences and rightfully so.

Not trying to pick a fight...I am opposed to DP...just reacting to the wording of your headline.

btw It is way past the scheduled time. I understand they are waiting on a ruling from State Supreme Court on motion to stay.

I am also opposed to the DP. I'd rather see killers spend the rest of their lives in jail. But she was convicted of the crime and that was her sentence. I don't see why her gender should matter.

Knew you'd show up.

I rarely show up.

That said, I don't see why it's any more horrible because it's a woman rather than a man about to be killed...unless, of course, that's what your sarcasm smilie is about...in which case, just ignore this.

In this case though, I can't feel sympathy for her. She essentially hired a contract killer and succeeded in the hit.

I think we can oppose the death penalty but still not feel sorry for the monsters on death row. Unless, of course, the person is plausibly innocent. In this case, she isn't.