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September 28, 2015

Georgia Plans to Execute Only Female Death Row Prisoner Tuesday 
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The children of Georgia death row prisoner Kelly Gissendaner are
pleading for a stay of execution ahead of her scheduled death Tuesday.
Gissendaner was sentenced to death in 1998 for recruiting her boyfriend
to kill her husband, Douglas Gissendaner. She is the only woman on death
row in Georgia. Many have called for a stay of her execution, including
former Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court Norman Fletcher. Kayla
Gissendaner, Kelly and Doug's daughter, called for her mother's life to
be spared in a CNN video.

Kelly Gissendaner: "She has grown, and the changes that she's made are
incredible. She's been a way better mom to me. She's so supportive of
me. I can talk to her about anything, any troubles I have or anything
that I want to celebrate, and I know that she's my biggest cheerleader.
My brothers and I really want my mom to live. She is all that we have
left."

 

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