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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]
Edenfield is the oldest death row inmate in Georgia. Tiffany Moss: Murdered her stepdaughter, 10-year-old Emani Moss. 5 years, 299 days Moss is the only female death row inmate in Georgia. Michael Nance: Robbed a bank and committed murder during a carjacking. 27 years, 150 days Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace
The $41 million Unit 32, the state's designated location for male death row inmates, opened in August 1990. [5] [17] Previously Unit 17 housed MSP's male death row. [18] On March 18, 1998 the legislature made another amendment, removing the gas chamber as a method of execution. [15] The lethal injection table was first used in 2002. [11]
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.
A man on Mississippi's death row who confessed to murder but not to the rape of a woman in 1998 may have been coerced by police, one expert says.
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 ...
Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals by county. An inmate is considered to have exhausted their appeals if their sentence has fully withstood the appellate process; this involves either the individual's conviction and death sentence withstanding each stage of the appellate process or them waiving a part of the appellate process if a court has found them competent to do so.
A Black man convicted of capital murder in the stabbing death of an 84-year-old Mississippi woman walked out of prison a free man after a judge overturned the conviction. Eddie Lee Howard, now 67 ...