Emory University’s Candler School of Theology will host a panel discussion on the death penalty Tuesday in light of a new execution date set for Kelly Gissendaner, the only women on Georgia’s death row.
The “No One is Beyond Redemption: A Candler Conversation on Capital Punishment and the Scheduled Execution of Kelly Gissendaner,” forum will be led by professors Liz Bounds and Robert Franklin, and human rights attorney Katie Chamblee, who focuses on death-penalty cases in Georgia and Alabama. Emory’s Center for the Study of Law & Religion is assisting in sponsoring this event.
Gissendaner, who is a graduate of the Certificate in Theological Studies program that Candler co-sponsors at Lee Arrendale State Prison, is scheduled for execution sometime between Sept. 29 and Oct. 6. Gissendaner persuaded her boyfriend to kill her husband. Though she did not commit the actual killing, she was convicted of the murder and sentenced to die.
A group of former female inmates and two of her children are petitioning the state to reconsider Gissendaner's execution.
Emory’s forum is scheduled for 5 p.m., Sept. 22 in the Rita Anne Rollins building, Room 252 of the Candler School of Theology, 1531 Dickey Drive in Atlanta.
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