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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]
Approximately four hours before the scheduled time of execution on May 7, 2013, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled 8-1 to grant Manning a stay of execution. The judges gave no reason for this decision. [54] On July 25, 2013, the Mississippi Supreme Court reversed its earlier 5–4 ruling preventing the testing of fingerprints and DNA evidence.
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 ...
Willie McGee was born in Pachuta, Clarke County, Mississippi, around 1916 to Bessie and Jasper McGee Sr., [4] who was a laborer at Eastman Gardiner Lumber Company. He had one brother, Jasper McGee, Jr. McGee lived with his parents and brother at 64 3d Red Line, an area of segregated colored company housing.
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 ...
MS Attorney General Lynn Fitch is seeking execution dates for two men convicted of multiple murders in the 1990s. Mississippi Atorney General seeks execution of 2 men convicted of 1990s murders ...
State District Attorney Doug Evans prosecuted all six of Flowers's trials. [15] The first through third trials (1997, 1999, 2004) ended in convictions but were overturned by the Mississippi Supreme Court – the first two because of prosecutorial misconduct; the third because District Attorney Evans was found to have discriminated against black jurors during jury selection.