ATLANTA: Georgia executed the only woman on the state's death row on Wednesday, marking the first time in
70 years the state has carried out a death sentence on a woman, a television station reported.
Kelly Gissendaner, 47, died by injection at 12:21 a.m. EDT at a prison in Jackson, Georgia, the Atlanta television station WSB-TV reported on its website.
Pope Francis had urged officials to commute her death sentence. Gissendaner was sentenced to death for her role in plotting her husband's murder in 1997.
AFP
