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| Guest | Sep 23 2015, 01:40 PM Post #1 |
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Georgia plans to execute first woman in 70 years next week Georgia plans to carry out its first execution of a woman in 70 years next week following repeated delays, the Georgia Department of Corrections said on Monday. Kelly Renee Gissendaner, 47, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Sept. 29 at 7 pm. She was sentenced to death for her role in plotting the 1997 murder of her husband. Her scheduled execution in February was called off due to inclement weather. A March 2 execution was postponed when prison officials noticed the lethal injection drug appeared "cloudy." Tests later indicated the appearance was caused by storing the drug at too low a temperature, prison officials said. Gissendaner's attorneys subsequently filed suit in federal district court calling Georgia's execution process "cloaked in secrecy, fraught with errors, potentially painful," and a violation of the U.S. Constitution's prohibition against "cruel and unusual" punishment. The lawyers asked a judge to allow them to conduct their own investigation of the cloudy execution drug. Last month, the judge ruled against Gissendaner, one of 54 women on death row in the United States. Her attorneys have asked him to reconsider the ruling. "Ms. Gissendaner faces imminent execution by a lethal injection of drugs that defendants will have mixed, stored and handled in the same manner as the 'cloudy' drugs they obtained for her botched execution on March 2, 2015," her attorneys stated in their motion for reconsideration filed Sept. 8. According to prosecutors, Gissendaner recruited her then boyfriend to murder her husband, Douglas Gissendaner, who was stabbed to death in a desolate area in suburban Atlanta after being abducted from his home. Georgia last executed a female on March 5, 1945 when Lena Baker was killed in the electric chair for murdering her employer, whom she claimed had abused her. Baker said she acted in self-defense and Georgia's parole board pardoned her in 2005, saying it was a "grievous error" that she was denied clemency. So far this year, there have been 20 executions in the United States, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The last woman executed was Lisa Coleman in Texas in September 2014, the center said. (Editing by Letitia Stein and Richard Chang) |
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| Tybee | Sep 23 2015, 01:52 PM Post #2 |
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Even though it's been proven that the death penalty has no effect on the crime rate whatsoever and costs more than sentencing someone to life without parole, I still have little sympathy for this demon. |
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| Guest | Sep 23 2015, 01:59 PM Post #3 |
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And you got me all excited thinking it was a certain Alaska former Governor..... Tease... |
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| Tybee | Sep 23 2015, 02:12 PM Post #4 |
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That broad has obviously gone lesbo during her prison time. She looks absolutely nothing like she did when she was arrested.
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| Guest | Sep 23 2015, 02:28 PM Post #5 |
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haha I think that can be common in some women's prisons? A woman I know who is bisexual was in jail or prison for shoplifting and paraphernalia possession charges, and she said how all the women there were super ghetto and some were butch but she did not have sex with anyone there. |
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| Erna | Sep 23 2015, 02:29 PM Post #6 |
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We are not sure that capital punishment is necessary because karma DOES right all wrongs and settle all scores - and not always in this lifetime. |
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| Guest | Sep 23 2015, 02:32 PM Post #7 |
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For more than a year, Virginia's largest women's prison rounded up inmates who had loose-fitting clothes, short hair or otherwise masculine looks, sending them to a unit officers derisively dubbed the "butch wing," prisoners and guards say. Dozens were moved in an attempt to split up relationships and curb illegal sexual activity at the 1,200-inmate Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women, though some straight women were sent to the wing strictly because of their appearance, the inmates and corrections officers said. Civil rights advocates called the moves unconstitutional punishment for "looking gay." The warden denied that any housing decisions were made based on looks or sexual orientation, and said doing so would be discriminatory. The practice was stopped recently after The Associated Press began questioning it, according to several inmates and one current employee. Two current guards and one of their former co-workers said targeting masculine-looking inmates was a deliberate strategy by a building manager. Numerous inmates said in letters and interviews that they felt humiliated and stigmatized when guards took them to the separate wing — also referred to by prisoners and guards as the "little boys wing," "locker room wing" or "studs wing." "I deserved to go for my crime and I did my time there," said Summer Triolo, who spent nearly six years at Fluvanna for theft before being released in February 2008. "But my punishment was by the judge to do time in prison away from my family and home. That was my punishment, not all the extra stuff." Living conditions in wing 5D weren't worse than the rest of the prison, and no prisoner said she was denied services other inmates received. However, the women said they were verbally harassed by staff who would make remarks such as, "Here come the little boys," when they were escorted to eat, and they were taken to the cafeteria first or last to keep them away from other inmates. The three guards confirmed such remarks were made. The two current guards and former guard William Drumheller said Building 5 manager Timothy Back, who is in charge of security and operations for that area, came up with the idea to break up couples by sending inmates to the wing. Gradually, they said, the 60-inmate wing was filled with women targeted because of their appearance. The current employees asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing their jobs. "I heard him say, 'We're going to break up some of these relationships, start a boys wing, and we're going to take all these studs and put them together and see how they like looking at nothing but each other all day instead of their girlfriends,"' Drumheller said. Drumheller said Back told him the plan one day in a prison office. The other two guards, who are both female, said Back's reasons for moving the prisoners were commonly known among guards, though officials would deny the reasons for the moves if inmates asked or complained. Warden Barbara Wheeler called the policy a figment of the inmates' imaginations. "With female offenders, relationships are very important, and often times when they're separated from those relationships they might perceive it as punitive," Wheeler said. Wheeler said her employees wouldn't segregate inmates based on looks or sexual orientation, and she wouldn't condone it. "That's like saying I want to put all the blacks in one unit and all the whites in one unit," something federal courts have ruled illegal, she said. A dozen inmates interviewed in person or by letter contradicted Wheeler, saying there's no doubt why they were moved. Triolo said she had gone four years without getting in trouble until she shaved her shoulder-length brown locks. She soon was moved to 5D, away from her girlfriend. Triolo and Trina O'Neal were two of the first inmates sent to 5D in the fall of 2007. "I have been gay all my life and never have I once felt as degraded, humiliated or questioned my own sexuality, the way I look, etc., until all of this happened," O'Neal, 33, who is serving time for forgery and drug charges, wrote to the AP. Drumheller worked at Fluvanna for two years but said he quit in August because he didn't like the inmates' treatment. The prison declined repeated requests for an interview with Back, and the AP could not find a working home telephone number for him. Sex — whether forced, coerced or consensual — is forbidden in prisons primarily to prevent violence and the spread of diseases. Segregating gay inmates in men's prison has been upheld by federal courts to protect them and maintain order, though courts have ruled against total isolation or harsher conditions. Separating women based on appearance, though, violates the Constitution's guarantees of equal protection and freedom of expression, said Helen Trainor, director of the Virginia Institutionalized Persons Project. "Point blank, this institution is ran by homophobes, and the rules instated here are based on your sexual preference not what is right or wrong," wrote inmate Casey Lynn Toney. |
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| Guest | Sep 23 2015, 02:35 PM Post #8 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ejvh43ogvg haha whenever Meg from FG speaks I laugh because the actress is nothing like her and is hot.
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| Erna | Sep 23 2015, 03:12 PM Post #9 |
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"Hey Lesbeens - bumpin' pussies is against jailhouse rules"! |
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| Guest | Sep 28 2015, 02:13 PM Post #10 |
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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/judge-denies-stay-of-georgia-womans-execution/ar-AAeSMxP?li=AAa0dzB Supporters for Georgia's only female death row inmate urged government and court officials on Monday to spare her life, arguing she has been a model prisoner and questioning the lethal injection method that will be used to execute her. Supporters planned a rally and prayer vigil on Monday in Atlanta for Kelly Gissendaner, 47, whose was scheduled to be put to death Tuesday night for plotting her husband's 1997 murder. It would be the first execution of a woman in Georgia in 70 years. A federal judge on Monday refused to halt the lethal injection, even as Gissendaner's backers sent Twitter messages with the hashtag #kellyonmymind asking Georgia's governor and parole board to intervene. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Thrash said Gissendaner's lawyers failed to show they were likely to prevail in their challenge of Georgia's lethal injection protocol, which the lawyers contend is "cloaked in secrecy, fraught with errors (and) potentially painful." Gissendaner's execution was postponed in March after prison officials noticed the lethal injection drug appeared cloudy. Prison officials later said the drug had been stored at too low a temperature. But Gissendaner attorney Gerald King said in court that the state, which plans to use the same procedures on Tuesday, does not know what caused the drug's cloudy appearance. "There's no reason to believe tomorrow night will go any different than March 2," King said. An attorney for the state, Sabrina Graham, said Georgia would not use a defective drug to execute an inmate. "That's absolutely never going to happen," she said. King said he would appeal Thrash's ruling. Gissendaner was convicted of murder and sentenced to death after prosecutors said she convinced her then-boyfriend, Gregory Owen, to kill her husband, Douglas Gissendaner. Owen confessed to fatally stabbing Douglas Gissendaner and was sentenced to life in prison, though he will eventually be eligible to seek parole. Kelly Gissendaner's supporters, including her three grown children, want her sentence commuted to life in prison. According to a website set up on her behalf, she completed a theology program and has mentored other inmates while behind bars. "My dad would not want my mom to be executed," Kayla Gissendaner, the couple's daughter, said in a recent statement. "He would not want us to endure another devastating loss." A spokesman for Georgia's parole board said Gissendaner's latest clemency application was being reviewed on Monday. |
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| Tybee | Sep 28 2015, 02:23 PM Post #11 |
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I think it's ridiculous to execute her and let the man who actually killed her husband off with a life sentence WITH the possibility of parole. She was a demon and as I said before it's difficult for me to have a lot of sympathy for her, but fair is fair.
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| Guest | Sep 28 2015, 03:39 PM Post #12 |
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She was more than likely offered a plea deal and didn't take it. That's what happens when one doesn't take the deal, if it has to go to trial and your found guilty, you will get the max. I can never understand why guilty people think they will win at trial, it's to big of a chance, take the deal, get the lighter sentence. |
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| Tybee | Sep 28 2015, 05:42 PM Post #13 |
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Yes, she was offered a plea deal just like the fool who murdered her husband. Bet she regrets not taking it now. |
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| Tybee | Sep 28 2015, 07:43 PM Post #14 |
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The State Board of Pardons and Paroles will hear a petition for clemency from Kelly Gissendaner just eight hours before she is scheduled to be put to death for planning the 1997 murder of her husband. In a statement released Monday afternoon the board said it would meet at 11 a.m. Tuesday “to receive and consider supplemental information to be presented by representatives for Kelly Gissendaner. The Parole Board members have thoroughly reviewed a second request received late last week from Gissendaner’s representatives to reconsider its previous decision denying clemency.” Then the board will decide if it will leave its Feb. 25 decision to deny clemency or if it will issue a stay for up to 90-days to give the case more attention or commute her sentence to life in prison. UPDATE: Parole board will reconsider Gissendaner’s clemency request photo Kelly Gissendaner Earlier Monday, a federal judge refused to postpone Gissendaner’s execution, now set for 7 p.m. Tuesday. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas stood by his decision from several weeks ago that Gissendaner’s constitutional protection from cruel and unusual punishment was not violated when her execution set for last March was delayed, reset and ultimately postponed within the space of a day because the lethal injection drugs were cloudy. ADVERTISING Officials were concerned the drugs would not be effective or would cause intense pain if used. Her attorney, Bo King, said he would file an appeal with the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Gissendaner was sentenced to die for plotting her husband’s 1997 murder and then persuading her then lover, Gregory Owen, to do it. Owen kidnapped Douglas Gissendaner at knife-point and forced him to drive to a remote area of Gwinnett County where Owen knocked him unconscious and repeatedly stabbed him in the neck. Kelly Gissendaner had spent the evening at a bar with friends but she pulled up to the murder scene just as her husband died. Owen pleaded guilty and testified against her and was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole after 25 years. Gissendaner rejected the same deal offered Owen and went to trial. The state put executions on hold in March because the lethal injection drug prepared to put Gissendaner to death then was cloudy and could cause pain or not be effective. In mid-April, DOC said the drug appeared off because it had been stored in conditions too cold. Otherwise, the drug was fine, Corrections said. http://www.ajc.com/news/news/crime-law/federal-judge-monday-declines-to-postpone-gissenda/nnp34/ |
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| Guest | Sep 29 2015, 09:49 AM Post #15 |
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It's been 18 years and she's not dead yet. Imo it isn't cheaper to keep a prisoner alive, who paid and pays for all her appeals and attorneys? Where is justice for the victims mother, father, siblings? They relive his death every time this is brought up. And clemency? Now they want her just released from prison? |
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| Tybee | Sep 29 2015, 02:45 PM Post #16 |
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Clemency has been denied. UPDATE: With less than five hours before her scheduled execution, the State Board of Pardons and Paroles again denied Kelly Gissendaner’s request that her death sentence be commuted to life in prison for plotting her husband’s 1997 murder. This was the second time the board has turned her down. The five-member board — with two of them participating via phone — heard a plea from Gissendaner’s oldest, Brandon Brookshire, for about 45 minutes Tuesday morning. And then they heard again from the family of her dead husband, Douglas Gissendaner. The pope, back in Rome after a six-day visit to the United States, sent the letter Tuesday through a representative, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano. “While not wishing to minimize the gravity of the crime for which Ms. Gissendander has been convicted, and while sympathizing with the victims, I nonetheless implore you, in consideration of the reasons that have been expressed to your board, to commute the sentence to one that would better express both justice and mercy,” Vigano wrote. The Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta has scheduled a news conference for 2 p.m. Tuesday to discuss the letter. During his visit to the United States, the pope called for the abolition of the death penalty. Gissendaner is scheduled to be executed aqt 7 p.m. Tuesday for engineering the killing of her husband in 1997. The letter was provided to the AJC by Gissendaner’s attorneys. They made a second appearance before the board seeking clemency on Tuesday morning. The board has yet to rule. All three of Kelly Gissendaner’s children were in the meeting with the board but only the oldest of her children, Brandon Brookshire, spoke. Earlier this year, only his siblings, Kayla Gissendaner and Dakota Brookshire, appeared before the board andhave been involved in a vigorous campaign seeking to spare her from execution. They were sequestered with the board about 45 minutes and left by a back way to avoid the media, local as well as national. Board spokesman Steve Hayes said the board would hear from others but he would not disclose who because the law makes that information a state secret. But on Monday, Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter said Douglas Gissendaner’s family planned to speak to the board via phone. Only three of the five members met in person with Gissendaner’s three adult children. The other two listened in via phone. Also Monday U.S. District Court Judge Thomas stood by his decision from several weeks ago that Gissendaner’s constitutional protection from cruel and unusual punishment was not violated when her execution set for last March was delayed, reset and ultimately postponed within the space of a day because the lethal injection drugs were cloudy. Officials were concerned the drugs would not be effective or would cause intense pain if used. The state put executions on hold in March because the lethal injection drug prepared to put Gissendaner to death then was cloudy and could cause pain or not be effective. In mid-April, DOC said the drug appeared off because it had been stored in conditions too cold. Otherwise, the drug was fine, Corrections said. http://www.ajc.com/news/news/breaking-news/pope-spare-kelly-gissendaners-life/nnqpJ/ |
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| Guest | Sep 29 2015, 04:54 PM Post #17 |
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Yep, Big Tootsie is toast.... Even Bid Papa can't save her. Flip the switch dolls, there's gonna be lard frying tonight..... BZZZZZZZZZ ATLANTA -- Pope Francis has asked the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles not to execute Kelly Gissendaner, the sole woman on the state's death row who is scheduled to be executed Tuesday night, according to a letter from a representative of the Pope published on the website of the Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta. However, Tuesday afternoon, the board denied clemency for Gissendaner, after holding a meeting to gather additional information from her supporters. Before the board announced its decision, Wilton Daniel Gregory, Archbishop of Atlanta, said the board received the letter in time for the 11 a.m. meeting. The board did not give a reason for its denial after it met on Tuesday, saying only that it had carefully considered her request for reconsideration. The Pope sent the letter today via his representative, Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, his diplomatic representative in the U.S., according to the archdiocese. |
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| Guest | Sep 30 2015, 12:20 AM Post #18 |
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Gone. Gone with the wind. Dead gone. I can think of others far worse that would deserve a dirt nap. |
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| Kim Davis | Sep 30 2015, 09:11 AM Post #19 |
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I Skyped with the Pope last night and He joked she was prettier than some of the nuns. |
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| Tybee | Sep 30 2015, 09:15 AM Post #20 |
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