Georgia woman set for execution gets last-minute clemency hearing
Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Georgia's only female death row inmate won a last-minute clemency hearing on Monday, a day before she is due to be executed by lethal injection, the state parole board said.
The Board of Pardons and Paroles will meet behind closed doors on Tuesday morning to consider "supplemental information" in the case of Kelly Gissendaner, 47, opening the possibility for her sentence being commuted to life, with or without parole, it said.
Supporters urged government and court officials on Monday to spare Gissendaner's life, arguing she has been a model prisoner and questioning the lethal injection method that will be used to execute her.
Gissendaner is scheduled to be put to death on Tuesday night for plotting her husband's 1997 murder. It would be the first execution of a woman in Georgia in 70 years.
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