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John Hartfield was a black man who was lynched in Ellisville, Mississippi in 1919 for allegedly having a white girlfriend. The murder was announced a day in advance in major newspapers, a crowd of as many as 10,000 watched while Hartfield was hanged, shot, and burned. Pieces of his corpse were chopped off and sold as souvenirs.
Authorities are asking anyone who knows about the killings or his whereabouts to call the Gulfport Police Department at 228-868-5959 or Mississippi Coast Crime Stoppers at 877-787-5898. This is a ...
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]
Mississippi: 1913: Murder of John C. Williams, Wife of the Deputy Chancery Clerk: Dragged from jail and hanged at a nearby tree, upon the alleged statement of two African-American women; [324] the women who made the statement were arrested the next day for making a false statement, according to one source [325] and/or disappeared. [326]
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation said the two men should not be approached and anyone who sees them should call 911 or the sheriff's office. Collins was being held for charges out of Copiah ...
Mississippi girl Carly Gregg, 15, seen texting stepdad seconds after allegedly fatally shooting mom Ashley Smylie, who discovered her ‘secret life’ Nicholas McEntyre, Emily Crane September 19 ...
Earl Wesley Berry (May 5, 1959 – May 21, 2008 [1]) was a convicted kidnapper and murderer from the United States. He was on Mississippi's death row with 64 others but was issued a stay of execution in October 2007 by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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