Georgia's only female death-row convict execution, which was scheduled on Wednesday at 7:00 in the afternoon at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison in Jackson, has been postponed due to winter storm warning. 

According to the National Weather Service the storm will last up to 10:00 in the morning on Thursday. This storm has been anticipated to seriously interupt travel in several portions of the state, which could make it extremely tough for the general public to get to the state prison.

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Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal announced a state of emergency starting Wednesday afternoon which will end Thursday afternoon. In the executive order, Deal pointed to the winter storm and presumed that the weather condition will render roads "nearly, if not completely, impassable with the expected snow and ice formations."

The execution through lethal injection was rescheduled on Monday, according to the Department of Correction statement, on which reason for the deferment of execution was not revealed.

Kelly Gissendaner, 46, who was convicted in February 1997, confessed in the court that she was responsible for the death of her husband Douglas. She also said she had conspired with her boyfriend Owen to kill her husband.

Consequently, the day before her execution the State Board of Pardons and Paroles had a clemency hearing for Gissendaner which was denied respectively. The State Board of Pardon and Paroles is the only agency in Geogia that has the power to lighten the death sentence.

Gissendaner has already exhausted all state and federal appeals in the hope that she may be granted pardon.

According to Edwin Wilson, Gissandaner's lead attorney, he thought that the court will not decide for a death sentence for the reason that she was a woman and she did not actually kill Douglas.

If Gissandaner's execution will push through on Monday, she could be the second woman in the state's account to be executed.

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