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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]
Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 March 7, 2025 Brad Keith Sigmon: 67 43 24 Male White South Carolina: To be determined [3] Profile: 2 March 13, 2025 David Leonard Wood: 29 38 Texas: Lethal injection: Profile: 3 March 17, 2025 Christopher Sepulvado: 81 48 33 Louisiana
It is not the first time the state has sought an execution date for Manning, who has been on death row for 30 years. He was convicted of capital murder in 1994 for the December 1992 deaths of ...
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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 ...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously denied the latest appeal from a man who has been on the state's death row longer than any other inmate. 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 $41 million Unit 32, the state's designated location for male death row inmates, opened in August 1990. [5] [15] Previously Unit 17 housed MSP's male death row. [16] 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]
Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 January 3, 2023 Amber McLaughlin [a] 49 30 19 Female White Missouri: Lethal injection [6] 2 January 10, 2023 Robert Alan Fratta: 65 37 28 Male Texas [7] 3 January 12, 2023 Scott James Eizember: 62 42 20 Oklahoma [8] 4 February 1 ...