article_snippet: Kelly is loved': Death penalty opponents gathered on the steps of Georgia's State Capitol in Atlanta on Monday evening. 
article_snippet: Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens said in a statement it is 'essential that executions are carried out in a constitutional manner' and that Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens approved of the decision to temporarily suspend executions.
article_snippet: Locked away: Gissendaner (pictured  in 2004) would have become the 16th female prisoner to be executed in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated nationwide in 1976 . '
article_snippet: Georgia and other death penalty states have bought execution drugs from compounding pharmacies in recent years after pharmaceutical companies stopped selling to U.S. prisons.
article_snippet: And many of Georgia and other death penalty states have adopted laws to hide the identity of Georgia and other death penalty states drug providers, saying laws to hide the identity of their drug providers are necessary to protect laws to hide the identity of their drug providers suppliers and maintain a source of the drugs.
article_snippet: Critics say executions should be as transparent as possible.
article_snippet: the drugraises significant concerns about Georgia's ability to carry out executions in compliance with the Constitution, but we don't know what really happened,' said Megan McCracken of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law's Death Penalty Clinic. '
article_snippet: Because of the secrecy surrounding Georgia's procedures, it is impossible to say if this is indicative of a larger problem,' Megan McCracken of the University of California, Berkeley, School of
article_snippet: Georgia houses one of the country's biggest prison systems, supervising nearly 55,000 state prisoners and more than 160,000 people on probation.
article_snippet: Gissandaner would have become the 16th female prisoner to be executed in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated nationwide in 1976, compared with 1,387 men who have been put to death during that period, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
article_snippet: Georgia has executed 57 prisoners since 1976, including two so far this year.
article_snippet: Prisoner complaints from Georgia had led to the 1972 moratorium on the death penalty, before the 1972 moratorium on the death penalty was re-established four years later.
highlights_snippet: It is 'essential that executions are carried out in a constitutional manner,' said Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens .