Gissendaner v. State

Thompson, Justice.

Kelly Renee Gissendaner was convicted of the malice murder of her husband, Douglas Morgan Gissendaner.1 The jury fixed Gissendaner’s sentence at death, finding as statutory aggravating circumstances that the murder was committed during the commission of kidnapping with bodily injury, a capital felony, and that Gissendaner caused or directed another to commit the murder. OCGA § 17-10-30 (b) (2) and (6). For the reasons set forth below, we affirm both the conviction and the death sentence.

1. Gissendaner and the victim had been married, divorced, remarried, separated, and…