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Two suspected killers who escaped from a jail in southwestern Mississippi have now been captured following a brief manhunt.. Tyrekennel Collins, 24, and Dezarrious Johnson, 18, broke out of the ...
East Mississippi is the state's main "special needs" facility (for inmates with disabilities and/or severe mental illness). [39] Marshall County Correctional Facility (MCCF)- Operated by GEO Group until June 2012; now under 10-yr contract to MTC. Wilkinson County Correctional Center (WCCC) - Operated by CCA through early 2013; since 2013 by MTC.
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]
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 ...
Two western Mississippi inmates who were held on murder charges are back in custody on Saturday after escaping from the Claiborne County Detention Center the previous morning, according to CNN ...
The state moved the electric chair from county to county, using it to kill condemned prisoners in their counties of conviction. [6] One such example was Houston Roberts, a white man convicted of poisoning his granddaughter in Jackson. [12] Mississippi and Louisiana were the only U.S. states to use a portable electric chair. [11]
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Elections are limited to once every four years. Any new county must be at least 400 square miles (1,000 km 2), with no existing county reduced below that size. [2] The county governing body, known as the Board of Supervisors, is located under the judicial branch of state government as established in the 1817 Mississippi Constitution. [3]