jon henry smith reports. supporters have been calling the 47-year-old a changed woman, and praying her life be spared. >> she interestingly enough was not even on site for the murder of her husband. and the gentleman that killed her husband has been commuted to life. so this is nonsensical. >> a jury convicted her of convincing her love tore kill her husband in 1997. gregory owen pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life. prosecutors offered her the same deal, but she turned it down. she is on course to be the first woman executed in georgia in 70 years. i first came to know kelly through other women and they loved her. and told stories awe how she had touched them and saved their lives. >> the origin gnat date was postponed in m after prison officials found the drug appearing cloudy. the courts have since given the state's drug cocktail the okay. looking at the evidence, there's no doubt he may be innocence. >> a court says his injection execution should proceed. the courts said in the two weeks since his las

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jon henry smith, al jazeera. >> when we come back, we will catch up with the latest.ay.t has been a second busy russia is not done with it's aggression against his country. and two old foes met on the sidelines of the d.a. gunnel, first about ukraine. some pretty pointed remarks against russia. >> yeah, really did. and before we get to that, let's cut to live pictures. this is the president of cypress speaking in the general assembly. he claims to represent the whole of the country. he forgets about the turkish part, that's another story for another day. he mentioned that ukraine is a u.n. founder he said the charter -- talking about russia's abuse of the veto. a license to kill. and said it was a shameful veto as well. >> put in there by russia to arm the rebels he said in the east of his country. let's listen to how he put it. >> okay we can't hear from him, but let me tell you he rounded off the speech by telling him that freedom he expected the sovereignty and territorial integrity, ukraine doesn't demand more, however lit not settle forless. now what about the re

jon henry smith reports. >> it is being billed as the first ever large scale lab testing of e cigarettes that simulate how they are used. the center for environmental health looks at products from 24 e cigarette manufacturers and found that 21 of them had at least one product containing hazardous amounts of one or both of the known cancer causing chemicals formaldehyde. the c.h.s. says it tests 97 in all. 50 of them contained the hazardous chemicals off in high. as. >> some were ten times as high, one was 470 times the legal limit for selling these products without warning people about the effect that it may cause cancer. even the products that delivered nicotine are problematic. >> nicotine is a really strong reproductive toxin. that means it causes birth defects. >> an thrill funded study argued e cigs are far safer than smoking tobacco. >> is it safer to be hit by a car than a bus, right, but i don't want to be hit by a car. and in the same way you are chosing either to live a healthy life or to live a healthy life and be exposed to chemicals that cause cancer or birth defects the cho

henry smith has the latest on this story. >> the incident happened last friday in a game between two san antonio area schools, jon jay and marble falls. the players involved are telling school officials what they did was not unprovoked. >> the incident is shameful to us and is deeply troubling to all of us. >> the fallout continues from the behind the back hit on a the accident high school football referee friday night. the two unidentified players involved remain suspended from both the team and the from the school now as local police decide whether or not to charge the players with a crime. the pair say that umpire watts made racial slurs against them. >> we are in the process of filing and official complaint to the official association with the racial slur allegation. >> on the website. the texas h.s. football.com, watts is reported as saying lyle bell and slander have already been committed against me and the austin football association said the referee is wanting to press charges. school district officials say the players were also angry about perceived slights committed against them in the game. >> during the game, the pl