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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 Hinds County, Mississippi, coroner's office, under fire for burying people in pauper’s graves without their families’ knowledge, released an undated policy on death notifications.
On November 17, 2021, 50-year-old David Neal Cox Sr. was formally put to death via lethal injection at Mississippi State Penitentiary; two weeks short of his 51st birthday. When asked to make a final statement, he said: "I want my children to know that I love them very much and that I was a good man at one time.
The Jackson Police Department in Mississippi adopted its first policy on death notifications in November. The coroner’s office has since released a copy of its own policy , but it isn’t clear ...
The longtime elected coroner in Hinds County, Mississippi, who faced withering criticism last year for burying men in pauper's graves without notifying their families, is stepping down early.
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]
Without death certificates, families often have to wait to collect insurance and settle the deceased’s affairs. ... Incomplete homicide autopsy reports have continued to pile up in Mississippi ...
Richard Gerald Jordan (born May 25, 1946 [1]) is an American man on death row in Mississippi for the 1976 murder of 34-year-old Edwina Marter, the wife of a bank executive. . As of 2022, Jordan is the state's oldest and longest-serving death row inma