Kelly Gissendaner has made her request for her last meal before her execution scheduled for Tuesday: cheese dip with chips, Texas nachos with fajita meat and a diet frosted lemonade.
The requested menu is significantly different from the "last meal" she was served on March 2, hours before her execution set for that day was called off because of a problem with the drugs.
According to prison officials, Gissendaner ate virtually all her dinner on her previously scheduled execution date March 2. That meal was cornbread, buttermilk, two Burger King Whoppers with cheese and all the trimmings, two large orders of French fries, cherry vanilla ice cream, popcorn and lemonade. She also had a salad with boiled eggs, tomatoes, green peppers, onions, carrots, cheese and Paul Newman buttermilk dressing.
Condemned inmates are traditionally given a last meal of their choosing. For the most part, the men put to death in Georgia in recent years have asked to have the same meal served to the other inmates on the day of their executions, but then did not eat the food brought to them.
Gissendaner is scheduled to die at 7 p.m. Tuesday for plotting her husband’s 1997 murder and then persuading her then lover, Gregory Owen, to do it. Owen kidnapped Douglas Gissendaner at knife-point and forced him to drive to a remote area of Gwinnett County where Owen knocked him unconscious and repeatedly stabbed him in the neck. Kelly Gissendaner had spent the evening at a bar with friends but she pulled up to the murder scene just as her husband died.
Owen pleaded guilty and testified against her and was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole after 25 years. Gissendaner rejected the same deal offered Owen and went to trial.
The state put executions on hold in March because the lethal injection drug prepared to put Gissendaner to death then was cloudy and could cause pain or not be effective.
In mid-April, DOC said the drug appeared off because it had been stored in conditions too cold. Otherwise, the drug was fine, Corrections said.
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