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Mississippi State Penitentiary, where Johnson was held on death row and executed. Edward Earl Johnson (June 22, 1960 – May 20, 1987) [1] was a man convicted in 1979 at the age of 18 and subsequently executed by the U.S. state of Mississippi for the murder of a policeman, J.T. Trest, and the sexual assault of a 69-year-old woman, Sally Franklin.
James Ford Seale (June 25, 1935 [1] – August 2, 2011) was a Ku Klux Klan member charged by the U.S. Justice Department on January 24, 2007, and subsequently convicted on June 14, 2007, for the May 1964 kidnapping and murder of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, two African-American young men in Meadville, Mississippi. [2]
Several Mississippi State Historical Markers have been erected relating to this incident: Freedom Summer Murders (1989), near Mount Zion United Methodist Church in Neshoba County [66] [67] Goodman, Cheney, and Schwerner Murder Site (2008, later vandalized and rededicated in 2013), at the intersection of MS 19 and County Road 515 [67]
The Kings of Tupelo is a crime drama documentary series that weaves together a complex narrative involving a small-town feud, internet conspiracy, Elvis impersonation, black market organ trafficking, and a presidential assassination attempt in Mississippi.
Mississippi Cold Case is a 2007 feature documentary produced by David Ridgen of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation about the Ku Klux Klan murders of two 19-year-old black men, Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, in Southwest Mississippi in May 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement and Freedom Summer. It also explores the 21st-century ...
Unidentified murder victims in Mississippi (1 P) Pages in category "People murdered in Mississippi" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.
Hulce received a nomination for Best Actor in a TV Miniseries at the 1990 Golden Globes. The film premiered on February 5, 1990, on NBC . As a historical docudrama , Murder in Mississippi precedes the storylines of both 1975's Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan and 1988's Mississippi Burning .
Curtis Giovanni Flowers (born May 29, 1970) [1] is an American man who was tried for the same murders six times by the same prosecutor in the U.S. state of Mississippi.Four of the trials resulted in convictions, all of which were overturned on appeal.