Georgia to execute its 1st female prisoner in 70 years

February 24, 2015 01:07

Not since Lena Baker, an African-American convicted of murder in Randolph County, has Georgia executed a woman.

The state is scheduled to snap that 70-year streak on Wednesday.Kelly Renee Gissendaner, 47, was convicted in a February 1997 murder plot that targeted her husband in suburban Atlanta.

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