Georgia Executes First Woman In 70 Years
The US state of Georgia has executed the first woman in 70 years, despite a number of last-ditch appeals, including one by the Pope, to try and block her execution.
47 year old Kelly Gissendaner was convicted
for the planned murder of her husband in 1997.
Lawyers filed at
least three appeals with the US Supreme Court to try and delay the sentence
hours before she died, but all failed.
Her former lover,
Gregory Owen, who killed her husband, Douglas, was given life in prison after
he turned State witness and testified against her.
Pope Francis had
asked the review board to reconsider, but the board announced it was not
granting clemency.
Hours later, the US
Supreme Court said it had rejected three applications for a stay of execution.
Witnesses to the
execution told a local news agency that she was singing Amazing Grace before
she was given a lethal injection.
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