Supreme Court denies requests to stop Georgia's planned execution of Kelly ... - Washington Post

The only woman on Georgia’s death row is scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday night after a state parole board rejected her last-ditch request for clemency and the U.S. Supreme Court denied two requests to stay her execution.

Kelly Gissendaner, who was convicted of convincing her boyfriend to murder her husband, would be the first woman executed in Georgia since World War II. Her execution had been scheduled for 7 p.m., but as that time arrived she still had appeals pending, so her lethal injection was indefinitely delayed.

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