IN THE hours before her execution, Kelly Gissendaner observed the ghoulish regimen of the condemned. She thanked her lawyers. She had a physical check-up, to confirm she was in a fit condition to die. She ate a final meal that included two Whoppers with cheese and ice cream. She told her three children, whose father she conspired to murder, that she loved them.
All this took place on her second execution date. On the first, bad weather made the trip to Georgia’s lethal-injection chamber too risky. On this second occasion, in March, Ms Gissendaner was waiting in an anteroom to death when the procedure was delayed, then rescheduled, then put off indefinitely. Her third death date was set for September 29th and carried out shortly after midnight, one of three executions planned in America this week.
Another, that of Richard Glossip, who was due to be executed in Oklahoma the next day, was dramatically postponed at the last minute. His conviction in the murder of a motel-owner in 1997 rested largely on the shaky evidence of a man who performed the killing, and who avoided a death sentence by blaming Mr Glossip; his supporters maintain that he...Continue reading
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