Kelly Renee Gissendaner "was originally scheduled to die on Wednesday, but that execution was called off because of winter weather."

She was rescheduled for last night at 7 p.m., but the drugs to be used "appeared cloudy," and the execution was again postponed. The CNN article almost seems to hint that the hand of God is intervening:

A petition saying the mother of three has turned her life around, even earning a theology degree while in prison, had garnered more than 40,000 signatures as of Monday morning...

"While incarcerated, she has been a pastoral presence to many, teaching, preaching and living a life of purpose," the petition states. "Kelly is a living testament to the possibility of change and the power of hope. She is an extraordinary example of the rehabilitation that the corrections system aims to produce."

Gissendaner's crime was, of course, murder. The victim was her husband, and her lover Gregory Owen performed the hands-on beating and stabbing. Gissendaner showed up at the scene as the murder was under way, stayed in her car a while, then got out to make sure he was dead. Owen confessed, implicating Gissendaner, and, from jail, Gissendaner attempted to hire somebody to testify falsely that he'd forced her to go to the scene. Owen and Gissendaner were each offered a life-in-prison plea deal, with an opportunity for parole after 25 years. Owen accepted. Gissendaner � after attempting to get rid of that part about waiting 25 years � went to trial.

According to her clemency appeal, her lead trial attorney, Edwin Wilson, said he thought the jury would not sentence her to death "because she was a woman and because she did not actually kill Doug. ... I should have pushed her to take the plea but did not because I thought we would get straight up life if she was convicted."

This was in Georgia, which had only executed a woman once in all of its history, and that was back in 1944. That woman was Lena Baker, a black woman who shot and killed her white employer in what she described as self-defense:

The trial was presided over by Judge William "Two Gun" Worrill, who kept a pair of pistols on his judicial bench in plain view. The all-white, all-male jury convicted her by the end of the afternoon... On entering the execution chamber, Baker sat in the electric chair and said:

What I done, I did in self-defense, or I would have been killed myself. Where I was I could not overcome it. God has forgiven me. I have nothing against anyone. I picked cotton for Mr. Pritchett, and he has been good to me. I am ready to go. I am one in the number. I am ready to meet my God. I have a very strong conscience.