Execution Of Only Woman On Georgia's Death Row Postponed

Update: Due to the inclement weather, the execution of Kelly Renee Gissendaner has been postponed from and rescheduled to take place March 2 at 7 p.m. Gissendaner was originally set to be executed February 25.

The Georgia parole board says it will not spare the life of the only woman on the state's death row.

The board made its announcement in a news release Wednesday morning, just hours before 46-year-old Kelly Renee Gissendaner is set to die at the state prison in Jackson. Her lawyers had asked the board to commute her sentence to life in prison without parole.

Gissendaner was convicted of murder in the February 1997 slaying of her husband. Prosecutors said she plotted with her boyfriend, Gregory Owen, in the killing.

Owen pleaded guilty and received a life prison sentence. A jury sentenced Gissendaner to death in 1998.

The parole board is the only entity in Georgia with the authority to commute a death sentence.

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