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Little Tich

(6,171 posts)
Mon Sep 28, 2015, 09:23 PM Sep 2015

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.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/supporters-seek-halt-execution-only-woman-georgias-death-170907876.html

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Georgia woman set for execution gets last-minute clemency hearing (Original Post) Little Tich Sep 2015 OP
Fuck the death penalty!!! darkangel218 Sep 2015 #1
I' with dark angel, Fuck the death penalty! K&R nt Mnemosyne Sep 2015 #2
a moral leader should not be executing its own citizens restorefreedom Sep 2015 #3
wow, a murderpedia.... Marty McGraw Sep 2015 #4
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darkangel218

(13,985 posts)
1. Fuck the death penalty!!!
Mon Sep 28, 2015, 09:30 PM
Sep 2015

This is insane that we can still kill perfectly healthy and safe ( already in custody ) people, only to get revange. It's sick

restorefreedom

(12,655 posts)
3. a moral leader should not be executing its own citizens
Mon Sep 28, 2015, 10:07 PM
Sep 2015

as with torture, the u.s. will have no cred on human rights issues until we clean up our own house.

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