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Robert Edward Lee Wilson (March 5, 1865 – September 27, 1933) was the creator and owner of Lee Wilson and Company, a group of large cotton plantations in Mississippi County, Arkansas. [1] Acquiring much of his father's former swamplands, Wilson formed a logging and farming business that would become one of the largest and most successful in ...
The jury was unable to unanimously agree on a death sentence so he was sentenced to life in prison based on Mississippi law. [18] Carr was tried for all four murders in Alcorn County on a change of venue. On September 18, 1990, Carr was found guilty of murdering each family member. [19]
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. Delayed homicide autopsies pile up in Mississippi despite tough-on-crime-talk Skip ...
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 ...
The bodies later identified as Hendricks and Mills were discovered on June 17, 1978 in Pemiscot County, Missouri, and Blytheville, Arkansas, respectively.Although they were found fifteen miles from each other, they were likely murdered by the same person, as the pair were reportedly seen together before the murders at a truck stop in the same town and were believed to have been dropped off by ...
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.
Howard Monteville Neal (born September 14, 1953) is an American murderer and self-confessed serial killer.Convicted and sentenced to death for killing his half-brother and two nieces in Arm, Mississippi in 1981, his sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment after it was concluded that Neal was intellectually disabled.