It has been 70 years since the last time the state of Georgia executed a female inmate, however, that is set to change Wednesday evening.
Reuters reported that at 7 p.m. Kelly Renee Gissendaner is scheduled to die by lethal injection. The 46-year-old was convicted in the 1997 murder of her husband and Desert Storm veteran, Douglas Gissendaner.
Prosecutors said that the woman plotted with a man she had an affair with named Gregory Owen, to stab her husband to death.
CNN noted that this is the first female to be executed in the state since Lena Baker, an African-American woman convicted of murdering her boss Ernest Knight in 1944. She was put to death by electrocution and pardoned in 2005.
Gissendaner’s execution will be the ninth carried out in the U.S. this year.
The drug cocktail in lethal injections have made headlines recently after the botched execution of Oklahoma inmate Clayton Lockett last April. That state was able to resume executions again last month by tweaking the drugs.