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Kelly Gissendaner Left Message for Kids Before Execution Was Postponed [View all]
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/lethal-injection/kelly-gissendaner-recorded-last-message-execution-was-postponed-n318751Two hours before her scheduled execution — which was ultimately called off because of cloudy lethal injection drugs — Kelly Gissendaner made a final statement in which she expressed love for her kids and thanked her legal team....
When Gissendaner, 46, made the recording, she was waiting to hear if the U.S. Supreme Court would step in and halt her execution after a series of lower courts and the state parole board had declined to stop it.
The justices had not yet made a decision when Gissendaner got an unexpected reprieve: Someone noticed the solution of pentobarbital that was to be used looked cloudy and the execution was postponed.
The execution of a second prisoner has since been postponed while Georgia has the drugs — obtained from a compounding pharmacy behind a veil of secrecy — analyzed.
When Gissendaner, 46, made the recording, she was waiting to hear if the U.S. Supreme Court would step in and halt her execution after a series of lower courts and the state parole board had declined to stop it.
The justices had not yet made a decision when Gissendaner got an unexpected reprieve: Someone noticed the solution of pentobarbital that was to be used looked cloudy and the execution was postponed.
The execution of a second prisoner has since been postponed while Georgia has the drugs — obtained from a compounding pharmacy behind a veil of secrecy — analyzed.
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