1. Georgia Execution

2. Georgia death row inmate Kelly Gissendaner was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday morning for her role in the killing of her husband. Gissendaner was scheduled to die at 7 p.m. Tuesday, but her lawyers filed multiple requests to the U.S. Supreme Court to try to spare her life. Each attempt failed. The Georgia Department of Corrections announced her time of death as 12:21 a.m. ET. The 47-year-old was convicted of murder for convincing her lover to kill her husband in 1997. Gissendaner was Georgia's first female convict to be executed in 70 years. The constitutionality of lethal injection drugs has made headlines in recent years and European manufacturers -- such as Denmark-based Lundbeck, which manufactures pentobarbital -- banned U.S. prisons from using their drugs in executions in 2013. That meant 32 states had to find new drug protocols.

3. In Other News Three mighty artillery pieces belonging to a CSS ship have been discovered. The guns had been thrown overboard by the Confederate crew, which didn't want them to fall into enemy hands, before they set the boat on fire. For 150 years, the cannons were burrowed in sand and mud in a South Carolina river. A team of University of South Carolina archaeologists used heavy equipment to raise 35,000 pounds of iron weaponry from the Pee Dee River. They are headed to a lab for a couple years of conservation and, eventually, display at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs building. The gunboat carrying the cannons had been designed to patrol waterways and perhaps seize Northern merchant vessels on the open sea. The NCAA has banned SMU's basketball team from postseason play for the 2015-16 season, and Hall of Fame head coach Larry Brown will be suspended for 30 percent of the squad's games as part of sanctions handed down Tuesday for a lack of head coach control. The NCAA found academic misconduct within SMU's men's basketball team and "unethical conduct on a former secretary" in the basketball program. It was explained that Brown didn't know about the issues as they happened but he is suspended for not reporting promptly or clearly with the NCAA.