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On June 25, 2015, Cox's appeal was dismissed by the Mississippi Supreme Court. [10] On February 16, 2016, the Mississippi Supreme Court rejected Cox's second appeal. [3] In July 2018, Cox wrote a letter to the judge, the district attorney, and his lawyer, in which he admitted to killing his wife and stated he would do it again if given the ...
One of Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch's arguments for her cause in setting an execution date for a man on death row is a recent state Supreme Court decision that says ineffective ...
The Uniform Simultaneous Death Act is a uniform act enacted in some U.S. states to alleviate the problem of simultaneous death in determining inheritance.. The Act specifies that, if two or more people die within 120 hours of one another, and no will or other document provides for this situation explicitly, each is considered to have predeceased the others.
Incomplete homicide autopsy reports have continued to pile up in Mississippi - despite tough-on-crime talk by state leaders ahead of the Nov. 7 general election. Police officers and prosecutors ...
The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Mississippi Attorney General's motion to lift a stay and set an execution date for Willie Jerome Manning, 55, would be held in abeyance until the ...
Richard Gerald Jordan, now 78, was sentenced to death in 1976 for the kidnapping and killing of Edwina Marter earlier that year in Harrison County. The Associated Press sent an email to the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office on Tuesday asking if the the new ruling could allow the state to set an execution date.
Death Penalty In Mississippi. Mississippi Department of Corrections. Retrieved on 2023-05-04. Stay Of Execution Is Continued. The New York Times (1983-07-07). Retrieved on 2007-11-12. Radelet, Michael L. Some Examples of Post-Furman Botched Executions Archived 2007-11-22 at the Wayback Machine. Death Penalty Information Center (2007-05-24 ...
A federal appeals court says it will not revive a lawsuit by the family of a Mississippi lawyer who took his own life after he was arrested and accused of providing information to people who snuck ...