For the third time, Georgia has set a date to execute Kelly Gissendaner for plotting the death of her husband. The state’s parole board, however, will meet first to consider “supplemental information” and decide whether to proceed, delay her execution, or grant her clemency.
Kelly Gissendaner
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Georgia is set to execute its only woman on death row Tuesday evening. If all goes according to the state's plan, Kelly Gissendaner will be the first woman the state has executed in 70 years. She was sentenced to death in 1998 for plotting the death of her husband, Douglas Gissendaner, with her boyfriend.
Gissendaner drove her boyfriend, Gregory Owen, to her house, gave him the murder weapons — a nightstick and a hunting knife — and then went to a nightclub with friends, according to court documents. Owen ambushed Douglas and forced him to drive his car to a remote location that Gissendaner chose beforehand.
Once they arrived, Owen beat Douglas and stabbed him. Owen took Douglas's wedding ring and watch to make it look like a robbery. Gissendaner later arrived at the scene and helped her boyfriend burn her husband's body and car. Law enforcement was unable to find Douglas's body for weeks.
Douglas Gissendaner.
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Owen accepted a plea deal and testified against Gissendaner. In exchange, he received a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Gissendaner refused to take a plea and lost when she went to trial.
As Gissendaner's execution date nears, two of her and Douglas's children are calling for her life to be spared.
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