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The laws on the books in Mississippi also provide the death penalty for aircraft hijacking under Title 97, Chapter 25, Section 55 of the Mississippi Code, but in 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Kennedy v. Louisiana, that the death penalty is unconstitutional when applied to non-homicidal crimes against the person. However, the ruling ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Mississippi since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. Since 1976, 23 people convicted of capital murder have been executed by the state of Mississippi. Of the 23 people executed, 4 were executed via gas chamber and 19 via lethal injection. [1]
Cox was the first person to be executed in Mississippi after the state's nine-year moratorium on capital punishment. The last execution took place in 2012 prior to Cox's execution. [25] Cox was the 18th person in the state to be subjected to execution by lethal injection since 2002. [26]
The Mississippi Supreme Court set an execution date of Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, for Cox after he said he wanted to surrender all appeals. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) (ASSOCIATED PRESS ...
At this point in time, Loden and Jordan had exhausted all their appeals and the state Attorney General could apply to the Mississippi Supreme Court to set execution dates for both of them. [23] In 2017, the Mississippi Supreme Court rejected another appeal from Loden for post-conviction relief. [24] [25]
Supreme judges of the State of Mississippi (1818–1832) Justice: Began service: Ended service: Notes John P. Hampton: 1818: 1829: Chief Justice, 1818–1829
The Mississippi Supreme Court has temporarily delayed ruling on whether to set an execution date for a man on death row for capital murder. The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the ...
The Mississippi Supreme Court has affirmed the convictions and death sentences of a man in the killings of eight people, including his mother-in-law and a deputy sheriff, at three different crime ...