[infowarrior1]

(03-02-2015 01:46 AM)2Wycked Wrote:  

Meet Kelly Renee Gissendaner:



This strapping young lass is an inmate of the state of Georgia's correctional facilities and is set to be executed by the state tomorrow. She was convicted her murdering her husband in the late '90's. Her execution was initially scheduled for today, but was delayed by "weather and associating scheduling issues."

Her crimes are nothing as salacious as one might expect for a female facing the ultimate price for a crime. She hatched a plot to murder her husband (Doug) and collect on life insurance policies/the family home. As expected, she didn't have the enough stones to do the dirty deed herself, she tasked her boyfriend (Gregory) to murder her husband.

The murder itself was fairly grisly. On a "girl's night out" for Kelly, she dropped off Gregory at her home. Gregory confronted Doug and forced him at knife-point into a car. He drove Doug to a remote area in rural Georgia, where he forced him out of the car. Gregory lead Doug at knife-point to some distance into the woods, forced him onto his knees and beat him senseless with a billy club and stabbed him in the back and neck.

Kelly showed up and helped cover up the crime by torching the car used to transport Doug to the remote woods.

Doug's body wasn't found till about two weeks later. Gregory flipped state's evidence quickly and copped to a plea that let him avoid the death penalty. However, he testified against Kelly and his testimony helped prosecutors secure a conviction and a death penalty sentence.

For Georgia's part, only one other woman has been executed (a black maid in 1945) in the state since electrocution was introduced in the state in 1924. As you might already expect, executions are rare enough and ones of women are exceedingly rare. If any of the lawyers on the forum care, here is a link to the state's supreme court decision upholding her conviction and sentence.

Commentary on women and the death penalty by a retired law professor:

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Victor Streib, a retired Ohio Northern University law professor and an expert on the death penalty for women, said it's clear that women are condemned to die far less frequently than men, but that there are so few cases that it's tough to draw any general conclusions.

"Statistically, yes, if you've got two cases and everything about them is exactly the same and one case is a woman and the other case is a man, the man is more likely to be sentenced to death," Streib said, but added that he wouldn't count on that as a legal strategy.

One reason women aren't sentenced to death as often is that they don't commit as many murders and when they do they generally aren't the "worst of the worst" murders that lead to the death penalty, Streib said.

Juries may also be more likely to believe a woman was emotionally distressed or not in her right mind at the time of a killing, which can spare them a death sentence, he said.

Frankly, when I read about this execution in a short blurb in the USA Today this evening, I was surprised to see that Kelly's story wasn't all that salacious. Sure, leading a man to his death by knife-point certainly qualifies as some depraved behavior, but there was only one victim. This doesn't seem to be the most judicious exercise of capital punishment.

Regardless, Georgia is set to execute the state's only female on death row tomorrow.

Female serial killers have been executed since the beginning of civilization. However it seems that since the 1800's when feminism came into being:

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1851 – Nancy Farrer – Cincinnati, Ohio – sentenced to death; commuted by governor to life.

Sep. 8, 1859 – Polly Frisch – Alabama, Genessee County, New York – commuted by governor to life on Oct. 27, 1859; execution date had been set at Nov. 2, 1869.

1865 – Charlotte Windsor – England – sentenced to death; later commuted to life in prison.

1875 – Marguerite Léris Grieumard - Saint-Vincent, France; 4: husb, d, step-son, other rel.; 19 décembre 1875; Graciée le 29 janvier 1876.

1875 – Bouriant, Marie - Ainay-le-Vieil, France; 5 babies murdered; convicted; 24 avril 1875; Commuted: 16 juin 1875.

Apr. 18, 1884 – Angenette Haight – sent to hang on Apr 18, commuted by Gov. Grover Cleveland.

1888 – Sarah Jane Robinson – Cambridge, Massachusetts – sentenced to hang, execution date: Nov. 16, 1888, yet efforts were made to have sentence commuted; commuted to life in prison in solitary confinement, Nov. 15, 1890.

Jan. 9, 1892 – Rosalie Schneider – Vienna, Austria – sentenced to death on Jan. 29, 1892; commuted on Mar. 17, 1892.

Mar. 1893 – Sarah Jane Makin – New South Wales, Australia – sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment.

Feb. 2, 1895 – Marie Therese Joniaux-Ablay – Antwerp, Belgium – sentenced to death, but it was automatically commuted.

Feb. 28, 1912 – Frieda Trost – Philadelphia, Pa. – sentenced to death, commuted.


Feb. 28, 1914 – Cynthia Buffum – Salamanca, N. Y. – sentenced to death in 1915, retried and given 20 years.

Aug. 10, 1917 – Leopoldine Kasparek – Vienna, Austria – sentenced to death (Aug. 10?), outcome still undiscovered.

Mar. 3, 1921 – Dagmar Overbye – Copenhagen, Denmark – sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment.

Apr, 28, 1926 – Antoinette Scierri – Nimes, France – sentenced to death, commuted to life in prison.

Nov. 14, 1929 – Lisa Karl – Reims, France – sentence to die by guillotine, but not executed (though her paramour accomplice was hanged on hanged.May 6, 1930)

1937 – Moulay Hassen (Oum-el-Hassen, or Umm-el-Hassan, alias Léonie Vallon) – sentenced to death by guillotine in Fez, Morocco. It was discovered in Dec. 1938, that in Nov. 1937 her execution was staged and falsely reported as the result of her great political influence and that she was alive and soon to be released from prison.

May 8, 1949 – Irmgard Swinka – Bonn, Germany – sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment.

Oct. 15, 1953 – Caroline Grills – Sydney, Australia – sentenced to death, commuted to life in prison.

Mar. 30, 1958 – Mary Elizabeth Wilson – Leeds, England – condemned to death, commuted.

Oct. 14, 1958 – Anjette Donovan Lyles – Macon, Ga. – sentenced to death, commuted.

1962 – Ekaterini Dimetrea – Nafplio (“Nauplion”), Greece – given 4 death sentences; outcome not yet determined.

1980 – Laverne O’Bryan – Louisville, Ky. – sentenced to death plus a 20 year prison term, later the convictions were overturned.

Jan. 18, 1981 – Blanche Taylor Moore – Alamance Cty, N. C. – sentenced to death, but not executed


Aug. 31, 1989 – Cynthia Coffman – San Bernardino, Ca. – sentenced to death with crime partner James Marlow on Cynthia Coffman and James Marlow were sentenced to death on August 31, 1989 in San Bernardino, California.

1990 – Johnson, Martha – Clayton County, Ga., sentence to death “commuted to life on appeal.”

http://unknownmisandry.blogspot.com.au/2...cuted.html

I don't know if this is directly related per se. But it seems to correlate. When so called women's rights came into being. Sentences were commuted or made more lenient for women despite what they have done.