Kelly Gissendaner becomes the first woman to be executed in 70 years in Georgia,USA Wednesday Sep 30,2015

The only woman Georgia's death row has been executed after US and Georgia Supreme Courts on Tuesday night denied several appeals to stop the lethal injection.

Kelly Renee Gissendaner was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 12.21am on Wednesday after court delays left the 47-year-old sitting in a holding room between her cell and the execution gurney for several hours.

Gissendaner, who was scheduled to be executed on Tuesday evening at the state prison in Jackson, was convicted of murder in the February 1997 slaying of her husband. She conspired with her lover, who stabbed Douglas Gissendaner to death.

Children of Kelly Gissendaner, from left, Brandon Brookshire, Dakota Brookshire and Kayla Gissendaner attened a hearing to ask parole board to reconsider Gissendaner's clemency request at The State Board of Pardons and Paroles on Tuesday  Sep 29,2015

  

Lawyers for Kelly Gissendaner Beth Wells, foreground left, and Susan Casey, right, confer as children of Kelly Gissendaner, background from left, Brandon Brookshire, Dakota Brookshire and Kayla Gissendaner wait before a hearing to ask parole board to reconsider Gissendaner's clemency request

  

Supporters of Kelly Gissendaner waited for several hours and into the night for news of Gissendaner's execution

 

Anti death penalty protesters Daniel Kolber gathered outside the Georgia Diagnostic Prison before the scheduled execution by lethal injection of Kelly Gissendaner in Jackson Georgia on Tuesday