Hours after she was scheduled to die by lethal injection, death row inmate Kelly Gissendaner was still alive, the Georgia Department of Corrections said late Tuesday night.
And there is no estimated time for when the execution might happen, the department said.
Gissendaner was scheduled to die at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. The 47-year-old was convicted of murder for convincing her lover to kill her husband in 1997.
Gissendaner's lawyers sent multiple requests to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday night, asking for a stay of execution. The Supreme Court denied the third application late Thursday night.
And pleas from Gissendaner's children and a recent letter on behalf of the Pope didn't sway the Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole, which denied clemency for the the inmate earlier Tuesday.
If she is put to death, Gissendaner will be the state's first female convict to be executed in 70 years.
Attorney Susan Casey said Gissendaner's children are "heartbroken."
