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On March 18, 1998 the legislature made another amendment, removing the gas chamber as a method of execution. [13] The lethal injection table was first used in 2002. [9] Since 1976, Mississippi has executed fewer prisoners than six other southern states despite comparable homicide rates. As of December 2022, 23 inmates were executed after 1976. [17]
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]
Unit 17 houses the execution chamber for condemned inmates. [93] A condemned prisoner is transferred to a holding cell next to the death chamber 48 hours before the scheduled time of his or her execution. [51] Cell No. 14 is used to house inmates prior to execution. The execution chamber is a 10-foot (3.0 m) by 15-foot (4.6 m) room. [94]
The Mississippi Supreme Court has temporarily delayed ruling on whether to set an execution date for a man on death row for capital murder. The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the ...
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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 ...
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.
A Mississippi man who has been on death row for nearly 30 years says the attorney general's quest for an execution date is premature. New evidence is pending in a MS death row case in which state ...