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Ga.'s only female death row inmate to be executed

Kelly Renee Gissendaner is slated to be executed February 25, 2015

By Beth Sawicki
WXIA

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — Kelly Renee Gissendaner, Georgia’s only female death row inmate, will be executed later this month.

A Gwinnett County judge signed an execution order Monday, requesting a date between Feb. 25 and Mar. 4. Tuesday morning, Georgia Department of Corrections Commissioner Homer Bryson scheduled the execution for Wednesday, Feb. 25 at 7 p.m. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.

Gissendaner’s legal team was granted a clemency hearing for Feb. 24. Her appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was denied in October 2014.

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