side that has emerged over the last 18 years of her incarceration. i know that is critical to a lot of people and then there is this other side where it doesn t matter one iota that ms. gissendaner has changed. they only look at the crime and that the legal system played out and that no matter what might have arisen since then, nothing went wrong legally. do you respect that? i do not respect that. because what s been to troublesome about this particular case is why have clem mancy if the 18 years of incarceration didn t matter. why have a hearing if what she does in the meantime doesn t matter. the board has the power to weigh these situations and see. and what i m hoping they see is that there s a life that is of value in the prison and in our world right now. the whole prison system is built around the idea of rehabilitation. this is a woman that has been
barring a last minute stay of execution, george ga tonight will put to death the first woman since 1945 in that state. this morning her attorneys filed an emergency request for a 90-day stay with the board of pardons and paroles. not to execute kelly gissendaner. they ve already denieds her clem mancy, though. gissendaner is the only woman on george ga s death row, the only one. she s convicted of conspiring with a boyfriend to kill her husband in 1997. at the time, gissendaner tried to appear as the concerned and worried wife. if she s somewhere that he can get to a phone, just for him to please call home and let somebody know he s all right. if it s not calling me, to call his parents or something.
that s all i want, i want him home. that s 1997. we re almost two decades later. we re joined with the director of the prison theology program that kelly gissendaner participated in. reverend, thank you for taking the time to be with us today. what are your efforts right now to stop this scheduled execution just now six hours and ten minutes from now? there are a lot of things going on right now. a lot of people involved. as you know the attorneys have filed a plea for a stay of execution in the hopes that the board will hear some new evidence and reconsider some of what they ve heard. there are petitions going around. i think there are over 100,000 signatures on one petition asking for clem mancy. and there s another letter going around that s been signed by faith leaders all over the country from many different faiths. my efforts are no trying to let people nona there is another side of kelly gissendaner, a