By Emily Shepard
ABC News
ATLANTA — Despite a plea from Pope Francis, a Georgia board has decided to execute the only woman on its death row tonight.
Kelly Gissendaner has been on death row for years, after she was convicted of murdering her husband in the ‘90s.
The State Board of Pardons and Parolees said in a release to ABC News today: “After carefully considering the request for reconsideration, and meeting with Gissendaner’s representatives again today, the Board has voted to let the decision of February 25, 2015, denying clemency stand. Gissendaner was convicted of murder in 1998 for the February 1997 death of her husband, Douglas Gissendaner, and sentenced to death.
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