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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 tragic incident comes after Jennifer spoke about her “incredible” ex-husband while discussing their divorce in a TikTok video posted on Dec. 10. “I’m about to be a newly single mom.
A Quitman County circuit judge determined that it was "too close to call" and chose to uphold Carr's death sentence. In 2016, the Mississippi Supreme Court overturned this ruling unanimously and sent the appeal back to the circuit court. Carl Parker's two sons from his original marriage to Betty, Dean and Scott, reacted to the decision with ...
For example, in Colorado, roughly 97% of all civil cases were filed in state courts and 89% of the civil cases filed in federal court were bankruptcies in 2002, a typical year. Just 0.3% of the non-bankruptcy civil cases in the state were filed in federal court. A large share of all civil cases filed in state courts are debt collection cases.
Approximately four hours before the scheduled time of execution on May 7, 2013, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled 8-1 to grant Manning a stay of execution. The judges gave no reason for this decision. [54] On July 25, 2013, the Mississippi Supreme Court reversed its earlier 5–4 ruling preventing the testing of fingerprints and DNA evidence.
The body of a Mississippi man who was found dead after vanishing under mysterious circumstances will not be released to family members until law enforcement agencies finish investigating the case ...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously denied the latest appeal from a man who has been on the state's death row longer than any other inmate. Richard Gerald Jordan, now 78, was sentenced to death in 1976 for the kidnapping and killing of Edwina Marter earlier that year in Harrison County.
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 ...