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THE US state of Georgia executed its only female death row inmate early yesterday by the often botched and painful method of lethal injection, as an Oklahoma man awaited the same fate.
Kelly Gissendaner was pronounced dead by injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson.
She had been convicted in 1998 of the murder the previous year of her husband. Her co-conspirator and lover Gregory Owen stabbed Douglas Gissendaner to death and is serving a life sentence after testifying against Ms Gissendaner.
In Oklahoma, Richard Glossip was scheduled to die by injection at 3pm yesterday, pending a request to the Supreme Court for a stay of execution.
In June, the Supreme Court dismissed a claim by Mr Glossip’s lawyers that the execution method could violate the eighth constitutional amendment, which bans cruel and unusual punishment.
