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September 29, 2015

Georgia: Officials Grant Stay of Execution for Kelly Gissendaner 
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Meanwhile, state officials in Georgia have granted a clemency hearing
for death row prisoner Kelly Gissendaner ahead of her scheduled
execution tonight. She was sentenced to death in 1998 for recruiting her
boyfriend to kill her husband, Douglas. She is the only woman on death
row in Georgia. The clemency hearing comes only hours after a federal
judge declined to temporarily halt her execution amid concerns about the
cocktail of drugs the state plans to use in her execution.

 

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