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State wants to proceed with Kelly Gissendaner execution
By baptistnews.com- Bob Allen
Published: 04/17/2015

The state of Georgia wants to move forward with the execution of a convicted murder whose impending death March 2 was postponed over concerns about the drugs being used for her lethal injection.

The Georgia Department of Corrections asked the U.S. District Court in northern Georgia to reject Kelly Ann Gissendaner’s complaint that the mental anguish caused by her botched execution amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.

Prison officials decided not to carry out Gissedaner’s execution when the pentobarbital solution prepared to kill her appeared cloudy. After testing, corrections officials said there was nothing wrong with the drug, and the appearance was because the solution was stored at too cold a temperature and was starting to crystallize.

They claim that several 11th hour requests for reprieve, including an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, simply rehashed arguments by Gissendaner’s lawyers already rejected by other courts.

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