Decision today for death row inmate

The State Board of Pardons and Paroles decide Wednesday on a clemency request for Georgia’s only female death row inmate.

Board spokesman Steve Hayes says members will make a decision on a request from 46-year-old Kelly Renee Gissendaner on Wednesday — the same day she’s set to die at the state prison in Jackson.

Gissendaner was convicted of plotting with her boyfriend, Gregory Owen, to kill her husband. Owen, who pleaded guilty and received a life prison sentence, testified at Gissendaner’s trial. A jury convicted her and sentenced her to death in 1998.

If the execution happens, Gissendaner will be the first woman executed in Georgia since 1945.