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A Mississippi coroner’s office under fire for burying people in pauper’s graves without their families’ knowledge has released a policy on death notifications that is unsigned and undated ...
Sharon Grisham-Stewart, the coroner in Hinds County, Mississippi, who faced criticism for burying men in pauper's graves without notifying their families, is stepping down early.
The State of Mississippi used hanging as its method of execution for much of its history. [7] From the earliest recorded execution in 1818 to 2004, records indicate that the state executed a total of 794 people. Of these, the great majority were black males, who account for 639 of recorded executions. [9]
His relatives eventually found out about the death after reading an Oct. 9 local news article that revealed Jackson police had failed to notify the public about dozens of homicides this year. By ...
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]
Peter Taylor was convicted of murdering his wife Monica over a divorce settlement on the evidence of a man he had previously attempted to hire to kill his wife. He was also convicted of attempting to solicit an undercover police officer to murder his son-in-law. [60] Mark Tildesley: Leslie Bailey Wokingham, England June 1, 1984 December 9, 1992
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 ...
No-fault divorce is the dissolution of a marriage that does not require a showing of wrongdoing by either party. [1] [2] Laws providing for no-fault divorce allow a family court to grant a divorce in response to a petition by either party of the marriage without requiring the petitioner to provide evidence that the defendant has committed a breach of the marital contract.