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| Court sets execution window for Barrow County woman on Georgia death row |
| By onlineathens.com- Kate Brumback |
| Published: 09/21/2015 |
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ATLANTA | A court on Friday set a seven-day execution window for Georgia's only female death row inmate, whose execution was halted in March because of a problem with the lethal injection drug. A Gwinnett County Superior Court judge issued an order Friday saying Barrow County woman Kelly Renee Gissendaner may be executed between noon on Sept. 29 and noon on Oct. 6, Attorney General Sam Olens said in a news release. Gissendaner would be the first woman executed by the state in 70 years. She was convicted of murder in the February 1997 slaying of her husband, Douglas Gissendaner. Prosecutors said she conspired with her lover, Gregory Owen, who stabbed Douglas Gissendaner to death. Owen is serving a life sentence. State officials on March 2 called off the scheduled execution of Kelly Renee Gissendaner "out of an abundance of caution," saying the lethal injection drug they intended to use appeared "cloudy." Corrections officials temporarily suspended executions in the state until a drug analysis could be done. Read More. |
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