A Georgia woman on death row was granted a last-ditch clemency hearing Monday, the day before she was set to be executed via lethal injection, the state parole board revealed.
The Board of Pardons and Paroles will meet today to discuss the case of Kelly Gissendaner, 47, analyzing "supplemental information," which may give her the chance to have a life sentence with or without parole, according to Reuters.
Two of Gissendaner's children had pleaded with the board to spare their mother's life earlier this year. Her attorney, Susan Casey, revealed that Gissendaner's eldest son, Brandon, asked if he could speak with the board.
Gissendaner, who is the only female death row inmate in the state, was almost executed twice this year. The first time, in February, was halted due to a winter storm that prevented travel, and the second one, in March, was called off "out of an abundance of caution" after the lethal drug used, pentobarbital, was unstrained, according to USA Today.
Gissander was convicted for murdering her husband, Douglas Gissendaner, in 1997. She had plotted the murder with her paramour, who stabbed Douglas to death, according to ABC News.
She is scheduled to be executed tonight at 7 p.m. in Jackson at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison.
