article_snippet: The execution of the only woman on Georgia's death row , Kelly Gissendaner (pictured), was delayed for a second time on Monday because the lethal injection was 'cloudy' Georgia has taken the decision to temporarily halt executions after the drug used for lethal injections appeared faulty, authorities said.
article_snippet: the decision came a day after the execution of Kelly Gissendaner was delayed for a second time when the execution team found that the lethal pentobarbital dose appeared cloudy.
article_snippet: Gissendaner, who was convicted of murder in the February 1997 slaying of her husband, had originally been set for execution last week on February 25, but it was postponed because of a threat of bad weather.
article_snippet: Attorneys for Kelly Gissendaner said in a filing with the U.S. Supreme Court that a lawyer for the state called Attorneys for Gissendaner around 10:25 p.m. on Monday to say the execution of Kelly Gissendaner would be postponed for several days because the state's pharmacist had looked at the drug used for lethal injections an hour earlier and determined it was cloudy.
article_snippet: About 11 p.m., the state told reporters an independent lab checked an independent lab potency and an independent lab was acceptable, but an independent lab later appeared cloudy and the execution of Kelly Gissendaner was postponed 'out of an abundance of caution.'
article_snippet: Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, which tracks data on executions, said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, which tracks data on executions's never heard of an execution being halted at the last minute because of a problem with the drug.
article_snippet: But executions in Other states are mostly on hold pending a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in an Oklahoma case sparked by a botched execution there.
highlights_snippet: Executions have been temporarily halted in the state after the drug used for lethal injections appeared faulty on Monday night .
  
highlights_snippet: Kelly Gissendaner had Kelly Gissendaner death delayed for a second time when Kelly Gissendaner was found that the lethal pentobarbital dose appeared cloudy .
  