{"id":155988,"date":"2015-09-30T08:15:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T08:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=155988"},"modified":"2015-09-30T08:15:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T08:15:09","slug":"georgia-executes-first-woman-since-1945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/09\/georgia-executes-first-woman-since-1945\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia executes first woman since 1945"},"content":{"rendered":"
A woman in the US state of Georgia has been executed despite a number of last-ditch appeals, including one by the Pope, to try to block her execution.<\/p>\n
Kelly Gissendaner, 47, was the first woman put to death in the southern US state in 70 years.<\/p>\n
Lawyers filed at least three appeals with the US Supreme Court to try to delay the sentence hours before she died. \nGissendaner planned but did not carry out her husband’s murder in 1997.<\/p>\n
Her former lover, Gregory Owen, who killed Douglas Gissendaner, was given life in prison as part of a plea bargain.<\/p>\n
Pope Francis, who was recently on a US tour, urged the review board to reconsider. But on Tuesday afternoon, the board announced it was not granting clemency.<\/p>\n