Post by pakman on Feb 25, 2015 11:42:35 GMT -5
Tonight, a Georgia woman convicted of a murder plot to kill her husband is scheduled to be executed. Kelly Gissander, 47, had her clemency appeal denied Wednesday.
What's interesting is that Georgia has not executed a woman in 70 years. The last woman they executed, Lena Baker, was posthumously exonerated.
Something interesting about this article is that CNN includes a slideshow of all the women in the nation who are currently on death row. I'm too lazy/busy to look through the whole list, but there's a couple familiar faces on here. This includes AMW Capture #532, Virginia Caudill (convicted of killing a 75-year-old woman along with Jonathan Goforth, who is AMW Capture #538) and Brenda Andrew, an indirect capture from 2001 (convicted of arranging the murder of her estranged husband; Andrew's boyfriend, Jim Pavatt, was convicted of being the triggerman).
www.cnn.com/2015/02/25/us/georgia-execution-kelly-renee-gissendaner/
What's interesting is that Georgia has not executed a woman in 70 years. The last woman they executed, Lena Baker, was posthumously exonerated.
Something interesting about this article is that CNN includes a slideshow of all the women in the nation who are currently on death row. I'm too lazy/busy to look through the whole list, but there's a couple familiar faces on here. This includes AMW Capture #532, Virginia Caudill (convicted of killing a 75-year-old woman along with Jonathan Goforth, who is AMW Capture #538) and Brenda Andrew, an indirect capture from 2001 (convicted of arranging the murder of her estranged husband; Andrew's boyfriend, Jim Pavatt, was convicted of being the triggerman).
www.cnn.com/2015/02/25/us/georgia-execution-kelly-renee-gissendaner/