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Georgia, the 11th hour appeal to save the life of the state's only woman who sits on death row. it has been 70 years since that state has executed a woman, and that is likely about to change tonight. unless this woman kelly gissendaner is granted clemency or another stay in the next few minutes. gissendaner convinced her boyfriend to kill her husband in 1987, but the path to the death chamber has been far different than the last woman that georgia executed. that woman was lee na na baker who was a black maid who was put to death for kill iing her employer. the story of that one, four months fr...

Out of the facility, and the people that since you have found god now have been ministering to, and ministering to, and talk about the value of your life, and how your life can change. so should the patrol board take into account such a criminal component of the criminal justice system that she has been rehabilitated. she is not asking to get out is the argue, and keep me there for life, but inasmuch as i have been rehabilitate and the people i can speak to, and the people i have touched and the people i have affected and the people i'm in close proximity with, how could you not hear that? tha...

Clemency. and they can say that they will take it away 3 of 5 and they have the power under georgia's constitution to commute the sentence. >> and another issue that has to be taken into consideration is that the jury has spoken and they have felt it appropriate that she should die. and the victim needs to be lo looked at and the desires. >> sure hope they didn't make any mistakes this time, and you know what i am saying? >> yes, it is final. >> you know how i feel about that. it is the death penalty, and it is what it is, and we stink effectively, and we stink at getting it perfect every time...

This, the man who actually did the murder of kelly's husband, her boyfriend at the time, and he took the deal, and he is serving a life sentence and not a death sentence. and now, we are joined by the last person to speak to her, and her theology professor. and what were the last words that you had with kelly? >> well, several of us there, and that is a witness for the people who love and care for her, including her children. it is hard to remember the last words exactly. we have been talking about so many different things. on the one hand, she is hoping to live of course, and many of us are w...