Just look toward the frivilous use of it's invasions and the deaths of innocent people as well as USA soldiers. In Vietnam it is estimated to have at least one million civilians dead.
During WWII there were equal numbers of dead and perhaps greater. But, it was the Third Reich that carried out the atrocities of WWII. The Third Reich was defeated so it could never happen again. There were trials for those that were killed. There are commemorations of the dead soldiers from WWII where those deaths occurred.
But, the problem with the USA is that it's mythology about the purpose of it's military allows it to embark on completely fabricated wars. Vietnam and Iraq were both fabricated, yet, the USA is allowed to continue these atrocities.
The deaths of soldiers and innocent people in war is okay, but, somehow this one death of a woman best defines the USA penal system. Iconic killing of people. Make no doubt about it, these are iconic. When those that support the death penalty ask why it is still practiced, the first excuse is "It is a deterrent."
So, these Death Row Inmates are iconic and their deaths carried out as an example to the people of the USA. Then there is the families of the murdered that believe they have closure because of the execution. Nothing it going to bring their loved ones back. I find it difficult to believe the execution ends the pain of loss. It don't think there is sincere closure.
Ready for this? She didn't commit the murder. She did not carry out the crime or supplying the means to kill her husband. She had a alibi to her activities the night of her spouse's death.
Gissendaner was convicted in 1998 (click here) of recruiting her lover to kill her husband, Doug Gissendaner, 30. Her boyfriend, Gregory Owen, testified against her as part of a plea bargain that landed him a life sentence but spared him from the death penalty.
According to the testimony of a man that would face the death penalty, she helped burn her spouse in the car.
Prosecutors said Gissendaner, a mother of three from Auburn, wanted her husband dead so she could profit from two $10,000 life insurance policies and the couple's $84,000 house.
That was the motive that was worse than the motive of her boyfriend.
She dropped off Owen at her Auburn house before going out with friends on Feb. 7, 1997. Owen surprised 30-year-old Doug Gissendaner and forced him at knifepoint to drive to a remote area in eastern Gwinnett near the Walton County line.
Owen forced the victim to walk 100 yards into the woods and get down on his knees. He beat him in the head with a nightstick, stabbed him in the neck and back several times and left. The wife later helped her boyfriend set the car on fire to destroy evidence.
The Georgia Supreme Court upheld Gissendaner's murder conviction and death sentence in July 2000.
She was working to help support her family.
...Ms. Gissendaner (click here) was in a relationship with Gregory Bruce Owen and at one point stated to a co-worker that she was unhappy with her husband and in love with Owen....
$20,000 is not that much money. Leaving her husband wasn't that difficult. She had left once before and then they reconciled and remarried. The entire circumstances surrounding her prosecution is very questionable.
29 September 2015
By Guardian staff and agencies
The Georgia board of pardons and paroles (click here) has denied clemency for the lone woman on the state’s death row after hearing requests to spare her life from her children and from Pope Francis.
Kelly Renee Gissendaner is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7pm at the state prison in Jackson. Gissendaner, 47, was convicted of murder in the February 1997 slaying of her husband. She conspired with her lover, who stabbed Douglas Gissendaner to death.
The board, which is the only entity in Georgia authorized to commute a death sentence, met on Tuesday to hear from her oldest son, Brandon, who had remained silent when his two siblings addressed the board earlier this year. The board released a statement saying it was standing by its February decision denying clemency and did not give any reason....
During WWII there were equal numbers of dead and perhaps greater. But, it was the Third Reich that carried out the atrocities of WWII. The Third Reich was defeated so it could never happen again. There were trials for those that were killed. There are commemorations of the dead soldiers from WWII where those deaths occurred.
But, the problem with the USA is that it's mythology about the purpose of it's military allows it to embark on completely fabricated wars. Vietnam and Iraq were both fabricated, yet, the USA is allowed to continue these atrocities.
The deaths of soldiers and innocent people in war is okay, but, somehow this one death of a woman best defines the USA penal system. Iconic killing of people. Make no doubt about it, these are iconic. When those that support the death penalty ask why it is still practiced, the first excuse is "It is a deterrent."
So, these Death Row Inmates are iconic and their deaths carried out as an example to the people of the USA. Then there is the families of the murdered that believe they have closure because of the execution. Nothing it going to bring their loved ones back. I find it difficult to believe the execution ends the pain of loss. It don't think there is sincere closure.
Ready for this? She didn't commit the murder. She did not carry out the crime or supplying the means to kill her husband. She had a alibi to her activities the night of her spouse's death.
Gissendaner was convicted in 1998 (click here) of recruiting her lover to kill her husband, Doug Gissendaner, 30. Her boyfriend, Gregory Owen, testified against her as part of a plea bargain that landed him a life sentence but spared him from the death penalty.
According to the testimony of a man that would face the death penalty, she helped burn her spouse in the car.
Prosecutors said Gissendaner, a mother of three from Auburn, wanted her husband dead so she could profit from two $10,000 life insurance policies and the couple's $84,000 house.
That was the motive that was worse than the motive of her boyfriend.
She dropped off Owen at her Auburn house before going out with friends on Feb. 7, 1997. Owen surprised 30-year-old Doug Gissendaner and forced him at knifepoint to drive to a remote area in eastern Gwinnett near the Walton County line.
Owen forced the victim to walk 100 yards into the woods and get down on his knees. He beat him in the head with a nightstick, stabbed him in the neck and back several times and left. The wife later helped her boyfriend set the car on fire to destroy evidence.
The Georgia Supreme Court upheld Gissendaner's murder conviction and death sentence in July 2000.
She was working to help support her family.
...Ms. Gissendaner (click here) was in a relationship with Gregory Bruce Owen and at one point stated to a co-worker that she was unhappy with her husband and in love with Owen....
$20,000 is not that much money. Leaving her husband wasn't that difficult. She had left once before and then they reconciled and remarried. The entire circumstances surrounding her prosecution is very questionable.
By Guardian staff and agencies
The Georgia board of pardons and paroles (click here) has denied clemency for the lone woman on the state’s death row after hearing requests to spare her life from her children and from Pope Francis.
Kelly Renee Gissendaner is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7pm at the state prison in Jackson. Gissendaner, 47, was convicted of murder in the February 1997 slaying of her husband. She conspired with her lover, who stabbed Douglas Gissendaner to death.
The board, which is the only entity in Georgia authorized to commute a death sentence, met on Tuesday to hear from her oldest son, Brandon, who had remained silent when his two siblings addressed the board earlier this year. The board released a statement saying it was standing by its February decision denying clemency and did not give any reason....
