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This list of U.S. states by Alford plea usage documents usage of the form of guilty plea known as the Alford plea in each of the U.S. states in the United States. An Alford plea (also referred to as Alford guilty plea [1] [2] [3] and Alford doctrine [4] [5] [6]) in the law of the United States is a guilty plea in criminal court, [7] [8] [9] where the defendant does not admit the act and ...
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 ...
Michigan: Never used [89] A Minnesota: 13 February 1906 [90] William Williams: murder: hanging: D Mississippi: 14 December 2022 [91] Thomas Edwin Loden Jr. aggravated murder: lethal injection: D Missouri: 3 December 2024 [92] Christopher Leroy Collings: aggravated murder: lethal injection: C Montana: 11 August 2006 [93] David Thomas Dawson ...
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.
A Mississippi judge in 2008 resentenced Neal under a state law that said an inmate must be be resentenced to life without parole if the death penalty is deemed unconstitutional.
Without death certificates, families often have to wait to collect insurance and settle the deceased’s affairs. Delayed homicide autopsies pile up in Mississippi despite tough-on-crime-talk Skip ...
Upon the death of a person intestate, or of one who left a will without appointing executors, or when the executors appointed by the will cannot or will not act, the Probate Division of the High Court of Justice or the local District Probate Registry will appoint an administrator who performs similar duties to an executor.
At a hearing in Jackson, Mississippi, Hinds County Chancery Judge Dewayne Thomas did not make an official ruling from the bench. Mabil, who lived in Jackson with his wife, Karissa Bowley, went ...