The lawfully ordered execution of Kelly Renee Gissendaner for the 1997 murder of her husband Douglas Gissendaner was carried out this morning at 12:21am at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center in Jackson, Georgia. The sentence was carried out after the United States Supreme Court denied Gissendaner’s request for a stay of execution.

Information on Gissendaner’s crimes and case history can be found at http://law.ga.gov/press-releases/2015-09-26/execution-date-set-kelly-re…

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