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		</div><p>After several denied appeals the US state of Georgia has executed its only female death row inmate despite appeals by her children and Pope Francis to spare her life.</p>
<p>Kelly Renee Gissendaner, 47, died by lethal injection at the state prison in Jackson.</p>
<p>She was convicted of murder in the February 1997 killing of her husband. She conspired with her lover, who stabbed Douglas Gissendaner to death.</p>
<p>Gissendaner was the first woman executed in the state in 70 years.</p>
<p>The United States Supreme court denied Gissendaner three stays of execution on Tuesday.</p>
<p>The Supreme Court of Georgia also denied her a stay of execution and the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles declined to grant her clemency after it met earlier on Tuesday to consider new testimony from supporters.</p>
<p>The board did not give a reason for the denial, but said it had carefully considered her request for reconsideration.</p>
<p>Gissendaner was previously scheduled for execution on February 25, but that was delayed because of a threat of winter weather and it was reset for March 2.</p>
<p>But corrections officials postponed that execution “out of an abundance of caution” because the execution drug appeared “cloudy”.</p>
<p>The parole board, which is the only entity in Georgia authorised to commute a death sentence, also declined to spare Gissendaner’s life after a clemency hearing in February.</p>
<p>Her lawyers asked the board to reconsider its decision before the second execution date, but the board stood by its decision to deny clemency.</p>
<p>Gissendaner’s lawyers last Thursday submitted a second request to reconsider the denial of clemency, and the board agreed to review new documents and hear from her representatives.</p>
<p>Pope Francis’ diplomatic representative in the US, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, on Tuesday sent a letter to the parole board on behalf of the pontiff asking for a commutation of Gissendaner’s sentence “to one that would better express both justice and mercy”.</p>
<p>He cited an address the pope made to a joint session of Congress last week in which he called for the abolition of the death penalty.</p>
<p>Two of Gissendaner’s three children, daughters Dakota and Kayla had asked the board earlier this year to spare their mother’s life.</p>
<p>They detailed their own journeys to forgiving her and said they would suffer terribly from having a second parent taken from them.</p>
<p>Her oldest child, Brandon, who had not previously addressed the board, wanted to make a plea for his mother’s life, said Susan Casey, a lawyer for Gissendaner.</p>
<p>In the request for reconsideration, Gissendaner’s lawyers cited a statement from former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Norman Fletcher, who argued that the death sentence is not proportionate to her role in the crime.</p>
<p>Her lover, Gregory Owen, who did the killing, is serving a life prison sentence and will become eligible for parole in 2022.</p>
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