ATLANTA -- With just hours to go before Georgia is scheduled to execute the only woman on its death row, her lawyers asked the State Board of Pardons and Paroles to reconsider her request to "bestow mercy" and commute her sentence to life without parole.
Kelly Renee Gissendaner, 46, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Monday at the state prison in Jackson, for the February 1997 murder of her husband, Douglas Gissendaner.
Prosecutors said she plotted his stabbing death with her boyfriend, Gregory Owen. Owen pleaded guilty and is serving a life sentence; his first possibility of parole will come in eight years, her lawyers said.
During her 1998 trial, prosecutors said Gissendaner wanted her husband dead so she could profit from his life insurance policies and the couple's $84,000 house, CBS affiliate WGCL reported.
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