Kelly Renee Gissendaner, 46, will become the first woman to be executed in seven decades in the US state of Georgia when she receives a lethal injection on February 25.
Gissendaner, the state's only woman on death row, has requested two cheeseburgers, two large orders of fries, cornbread with a side of buttermilk, popcorn, lemonade and a salad with boiled eggs, tomatoes, bell peppers, onions, carrots, cheese and buttermilk dressing.
Gissendaner, 46, has been given the death penalty for orchestrating a particularly brutal death for her husband, Douglas Gissendaner, in 1997.
A jury found the murderous spouse persuaded her boyfriend, Gregory Owen, to kidnap her husband at knifepoint, club him in the back of the head and stab him to death in a rural stretch of woods while she went dancing with her girlfriends.
They later torched his car and left his corpse face down among the trees to be chewed by wild animals.
Owen flipped on his former lover and was sentenced to 25 years.
Gissendaner was convicted in 1998 and the jury recommended she be put to death.
The US Supreme Court refused to hear hear appeal in 2014.
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