Execution Date, Time Set for Kelly Gissendaner

The date and time for the execution of convicted murderer Kelly Renee Gissendaner has been set, the Georgia Department of Corrections said.

Gissendaner, condemned for masterminding the murder of her husband in Gwinnett in 1997, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7 p.m., Sept. 29, at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.

If executed, Gissendaner, the only woman on Georgia’s death row, would be the first woman put to death in Georgia in 70 years, and the 35th inmate overall to die by lethal injection.

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On Friday, the Gwinnett County Superior Court ordered the department of corrections to carry out the execution between noon Sept. 29 and noon Oct. 6.

The execution has been postponed two times previously -- in February due to a winter storm, and in March, when authorities found a cloudy appearance in the drug that was to be used for the lethal injection.

Gissendaner, of Auburn, Ga., was convicted of plotting the murder of her husband, Douglas, near Dacula in 1997.

She was found guilty of convincing her boyfriend Gregory Owen to murder Douglas Gissendaner on Feb. 7, 1997, then went to lengths to deny her involvement, prosecutors said. Owen, who was sentenced to life in prison, avoided the death penalty by helping prosecutors in the case against Gissendaner.

Photo: Kelly Gissendaner; Georgia Dept. of Corrections