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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 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]
A coroner pronounced him dead at 6:12 p.m. CST at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Cox pleaded guilty in 2012 to capital murder for the May 2010 shooting death of his estranged wife ...
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 ...
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 ...
Godbolt, now 41, is on death row at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Seven justices affirmed Godbolt's conviction, but justices Leslie King and Jim Kitchens dissented.
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
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