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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 ...
Mississippi was the last state to allow same-sex couples to adopt after a federal judge ruled in May 2016 that the adoption ban unconstitutional. Recent opinion polls have reported a trend in support for some LGBT rights, with a majority of Mississippi residents now favoring an anti-discrimination law covering sexual orientation and gender ...
The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders, or the Mississippi Burning murders, were the abduction and murder of three activists in Philadelphia, Mississippi, in June 1964, during the Civil Rights Movement. The victims were James Chaney from Meridian ...
April 18, 2024 at 4:27 PM. It’s been nearly two years since President Biden signed the $52.7 billion CHIPS Act with the goal of dramatically expanding the US’s semiconductor manufacturing ...
A tech industry group sued Mississippi on June 7, arguing the law would unconstitutionally limit access to online speech for minors and adults. Federal judge halts Mississippi law requiring age ...
On January 24, 2023, six white law enforcement officers, five from the Rankin County Sheriff's Office and one from the Richland Police Department, tortured two black men, Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker, at a home in Braxton, Mississippi. Police were called to the home by a white neighbor who reported that Jenkins and Parker had entered the ...
Updated July 6, 2024 at 8:05 PM. NewsBase. Two women have been charged in yearslong “romance schemes” to dupe a number of elderly men out of more than $7 million, Manhattan federal prosecutors ...
In 2014, there was still only one abortion clinic in Mississippi. [56] 99% of the counties in the state did not have an abortion clinic. That year, 91% of women in the state aged 15–44 lived in a county without an abortion clinic. [57] Around 90% of Jackson Women's Health services were abortion related in 2017.