The U.S. state of Georgia executed its only woman on death row on Wednesday (September 30), marking the first time in 70 years the state has carried out a death sentence on a woman, a prison official said. Kelly Gissendaner, 47, died by lethal injection at 12:21 a.m. EDT at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, a prison spokeswoman said. “She was praying, and when she was not singing she was praying, and became […]