Clergy petition that Kelly Renee Gissendaner's life be spared.

Update: A response from the U.S. Supreme Court regarding a last minute reprieve is still pending. Meanwhile the Georgia State Parole Board has been asked to reconsider Gissendaner's clemency request.

Two dozen or so priests and other ministers delivered 26,000 petitions to Gov. Nathan Deal's office asking him to use his influence to halt tonight's scheduled execution.

"We are purportedly a Christian state, but this execution is just state-sponsored mob violence," said the Right Rev. Rob Wright, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta. "It's a lynching."

Kelly Gissendaner, a 47-year-old Auburn woman, is scheduled to undergo lethal injection at 7 p.m. for the murder of her husband Doug in 1997.

She was denied clemency last week after her attorneys took the allotted morning hearing Tuesday before the Board of Pardons and Paroles. Her attorneys filed an emergency motion today for a 90-day stay to allow them to present more than the 21 witnesses at Tuesday's hearing.

Her supporters note that Gissendaner is remorseful and has embraced Christianity. Read the full story here.

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