article_snippet: Kelly Renee Gissendaner, 46, was due to be given an injection of pentobarbital at a Jackson prison  at 7pm on Monday in retribution for plotting the murder of the only woman on Georgia's death row husband in 1997.
article_snippet: Murder: Gissendaner (pictured, left, in Kelly arrest mugshot from 1997) is due to be executed for plotting the murder of Kelly husband, Douglas.
article_snippet: However, Kelly boyfriend Gregory Owen (right) who carried out the deed, will be eligible for parole in eight years after accepting a life sentence and testifying against Gissendaner in trial .
article_snippet: Gissendaner has also drawn attention to the fact that, while Gissendaner did not kill Gissendaner husband, the man who struck the fatal blows is not facing the death penalty - and will, in fact, be eligible for parole in eight years.
article_snippet: Indeed, although Gissendaner boyfriend, Gregory Owen, stabbed Gissendaner husband, Douglas, at Gissendaner urging, he could be freed in just eight years after accepting a life sentence and testifying against Gissendaner.
article_snippet: Locked away: Gissendaner (pictured  in 2004) has been locked up for the past 17 years after Gissendaner conviction .
article_snippet: Owen, who is the one who stabbed Gissendaner to death, took the same plea deal as Owen - life in prison and testified for the prosecution.
highlights_snippet: Kelly Renee Gissendaner, 46, was due to be executed  at 7pm on Monday .
  
highlights_snippet: She plotted the brutal 1997 murder of husband, Douglas, with boyfriend .
  