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James Ford Seale (June 25, 1935 [1] – August 2, 2011) was a Ku Klux Klan member charged by the U.S. Justice Department on January 24, 2007, and subsequently convicted on June 14, 2007, for the May 1964 kidnapping and murder of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, two African-American young men in Meadville, Mississippi. [2]
Mississippi State Penitentiary, where Johnson was held on death row and executed. Edward Earl Johnson (June 22, 1960 – May 20, 1987) [1] was a man convicted in 1979 at the age of 18 and subsequently executed by the U.S. state of Mississippi for the murder of a policeman, J.T. Trest, and the sexual assault of a 69-year-old woman, Sally Franklin.
Unidentified murder victims in Mississippi (1 P) Pages in category "People murdered in Mississippi" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.
Mississippi Cold Case is a 2007 feature documentary produced by David Ridgen of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation about the Ku Klux Klan murders of two 19-year-old black men, Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, in Southwest Mississippi in May 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement and Freedom Summer. It also explores the 21st-century ...
Franklin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi.As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,675. [1] Its county seat is Meadville. [2] The county was formed on December 21, 1809, from portions of Adams County and named for Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. [3]
[8] The county also had experienced two murders, in three months, across its 20-mile radius. [7] At the time, the state of Mississippi led the country in homicides. [9] At 26.2, its homicide rate was the first state to cross the 25 rate mark ever, and its 512 homicides were more than the total number of homicides in 15 states combined. [9]
Mississippi: 1913: Murder of John C. Williams, Wife of the Deputy Chancery Clerk: Dragged from jail and hanged at a nearby tree, upon the alleged statement of two African-American women; [324] the women who made the statement were arrested the next day for making a false statement, according to one source [325] and/or disappeared. [326]
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]