'Love beats out hate': 'Last words' of only woman on Georgia's death row revealed - just hours before her execution was called off because of problem with lethal injection drug

[flowers]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2983594/Love-beats-hate-words-woman-Georgia-s-death-row-just-hours-execution-called-problem-lethal-injection-drug.html

The only woman on Georgia's death row told her children that 'love beats out hate' just 90 minutes before she was due to be executed on Monday night.

Kelly Gissendaner, 46, had been taken to the prison in Jackson where Georgia carries out executions by lethal injection, and expected to die that night - before officials discovered a problem with the drug that was meant to kill her.

Executioners for the state found that their dose of pentobarbital, a clear solution solution they were going to use on Gissendaner, was cloudy, sparking fears that it would not work properly.

The Georgia Department of Corrections first delayed the execution, scheduled for 7pm, then eventually canceled it at 11pm 'out of an abundance of caution'.

But when she recorded her statement, addressed to her children and legal team, she would have had no idea that she was not minutes from death.

[mountaineer]

Firing squad would work, I suspect.

[flowers]

Firing squad would work, I suspect.

One single bullet would.

[truth_seeker]

I am neutral on the death penalty. DNA has vindicated a few death row inmates.

Better to make them suffer by living, save money, and have them remain alive if eventually vindicated.

[Fishrrman]

truth_seeker wrote above:
[[ I am neutral on the death penalty. DNA has vindicated a few death row inmates.
Better to make them suffer by living, save money, and have them remain alive if eventually vindicated. ]]

Could you please cite the name of one person who has been wrongfully executed since executions resumed with the firing squad and Gary Gilmore in 1978?

[sinkspur]

Just as gay marriage is inevitable, so too is the end of the death penalty.  Even  Texas, which executes more people than any other state, has seen a dramatic decline in death sentences since the legislature passed life without parole.  That's what most capital criminals get now.

That's just a part of life that I don't think much about and don't really care, one way or the othe.