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Is About to Do Something It Hasn’t Done in More Than 70 Years
A Georgia court issued a seven-day execution window for the state’s only female death row inmate, putting an end to the stay placed on her execution earlier this year as a result of a problem with the lethal injection drug the Peach state uses for executions.
According to WSB-TV, Attorney General Sam Olens announced late Friday that Kelly Renee Gissendaner may be executed any time between noon on September 29th and noon on October 6th, per the order issued by the Gwinnett County Superior Court judge.
Her execution will be the first for a woman in 70 years. Gissendaner was convicted of the 1997 murder of her husband, Douglas Gissendaner. Prosecutors said that she conspired with her lover, Gregory Owen, who stabbed Gissendaner. Owen is serving a life sentence in exchange for testifying against her in court, the Gwinnett Daily Post reported.
Gissendaner was initially scheduled to be executed on March 2nd of this year, but state officials called it off at the last minute “out of an abundance of caution,” because the lethal injection drug they planned on using appeared “cloudy.” WSB reported that corrections officials in the state immediately suspended executions in the state until a drug analysis could be completed.
It was later confirmed that some of the pentobarbital in the drug cocktail had precipitated. Pentobarbital is a barbiturate that helps induce sleep and relieve anxiety. A follow-up test by the state found that the drug had been shipped and stored below the required temperature for it to be effective.
Gissendaner’s lawyers attempted to file a complaint a week after her March execution date, arguing that her Constitutional rights were violated as a result of the botched drug, and the fact that her execution had been postponed twice over the last month – the first time because of a winter storm.
They later amended their argument in June, saying that Gissendaner shouldn’t be executed until a judge determines that her rights wouldn’t be violated. Her complaint was dismissed in full last month, allowing for the judge’s ruling on Friday.
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A Georgia court issued a seven-day execution window for the state’s only female death row inmate, putting an end to the stay placed on her execution earlier this year as a result of a problem with the lethal injection drug the Peach state uses for executions.
According to WSB-TV, Attorney General Sam Olens announced late Friday that Kelly Renee Gissendaner may be executed any time between noon on September 29th and noon on October 6th, per the order issued by the Gwinnett County Superior Court judge.
Her execution will be the first for a woman in 70 years. Gissendaner was convicted of the 1997 murder of her husband, Douglas Gissendaner. Prosecutors said that she conspired with her lover, Gregory Owen, who stabbed Gissendaner. Owen is serving a life sentence in exchange for testifying against her in court, the Gwinnett Daily Post reported.
Gissendaner was initially scheduled to be executed on March 2nd of this year, but state officials called it off at the last minute “out of an abundance of caution,” because the lethal injection drug they planned on using appeared “cloudy.” WSB reported that corrections officials in the state immediately suspended executions in the state until a drug analysis could be completed.
It was later confirmed that some of the pentobarbital in the drug cocktail had precipitated. Pentobarbital is a barbiturate that helps induce sleep and relieve anxiety. A follow-up test by the state found that the drug had been shipped and stored below the required temperature for it to be effective.
Gissendaner’s lawyers attempted to file a complaint a week after her March execution date, arguing that her Constitutional rights were violated as a result of the botched drug, and the fact that her execution had been postponed twice over the last month – the first time because of a winter storm.
They later amended their argument in June, saying that Gissendaner shouldn’t be executed until a judge determines that her rights wouldn’t be violated. Her complaint was dismissed in full last month, allowing for the judge’s ruling on Friday.
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