Female inmate sings ‘Amazing Grace’ as put to death in Georgia

The only woman on the US state of Georgia’s death row was executed early yesterday, making her the first woman put to death by the state in seven decades.

Kelly Renee Gissendaner was pronounced dead by injection of pentobarbital at 12.21am at the state prison in Jackson.

She was convicted of murder in the February 1997 killing of her husband after she conspired with her lover, Gregory Owen, who stabbed Douglas Gissendaner to death.