Aug. 17
MISSISSIPPI:
Mississippi Says It Has Execution Drugs Amid Secrecy FightMississippi
prison officials say they have obtained new supplies of execution drugs.
Mississippi prison officials have obtained new supplies of execution drugs,
which could allow the state to carry out
July 27
MISSISSIPPI:
Jury to hear more evidence before deciding life or death for Scotty Street
A Jackson County jury will hear a second day of evidence before heading back to
a conference room and determining whether Scotty Street should receive the
death penalty. That jury found
June 26
MISSISSIPPI:
3 accused in child's death to appear in court Monday
3 Mississippi teenagers charged in connection with the shooting death of a
6-year-old boy are scheduled to appear in court Monday.
Madison County Justice Court Judge Bruce McKinley will consider the case
Feb. 12
MISSISSIPPI:
Alternate execution method bill ignores larger death penalty debate
There is no gentle way to say it, so here goes. House Bill 638 as passed by
that chamber of the Mississippi Legislature isn't a bill that considers whether
the state should impose the death
Dec. 18
MISSISSIPPI:
A strong case for the death penalty
I think idealism is as dangerous as it is essential. Nowhere is this more
obvious than in the endless debates about the death penalty. An article in a
recent edition of The Clarion-Ledger described the execution of a
Nov. 12
MISSISSIPPI:
2 face capital murder charges in death of Mississippi college student
2 of the 5 suspects being held in the shooting death of 21-year-old Mississippi
State University student now face capital murder charges.
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports that
Oct. 9
MISSISSIPPI:
Mississippi death penalty stalls as lawyers battle
With sprawling litigation over Mississippi's use of execution drugs now
scheduled to stretch into 2017, the state could go 5 years without executing a
death row inmate.
That would be the longest gap between
August 25
MISSISSIPPI:
Expert witness goes nuts during questioning for Mississippi death penalty case
I've been reporting on the crazy death investigation system in Mississippi for
about 10 years now. Just when I've thought things couldn't get more surreal,
I'm inevitably proven
Aug. 16
MISSISSIPPI:
Judge told to review death row inmate's disability claimAnthony Carr
convicted in 1990 slayings
The Mississippi Supreme Court is telling a circuit judge to reconsider his
ruling that upheld the death penalty for an inmate who said he's intellectually
June 8
MISSISSIPPI:
Mississippi: No discrimination in ex-death row inmate jury case
A lawyer for the state of Mississippi argued Tuesday that there was no evidence
prosecutors discriminated when picking the jury that eventually convicted Lisa
Jo Chamberlin of the grisly 2004 murders of
March 29
MISSISSIPPI:
Secret Execution Team, Firing Squads, Restricted Media Included in House Bill
Death by firing squad could become an option for administering the death
penalty if Senate Bill 2237, which passed by the Mississippi House of
Representatives on Friday and held on a
Jan. 28
MISSISSIPPI:
Firing squads, electrocution; options for Mississippi's death penalty
Attorney General Jim Hood outlined his legislative priorities Wednesday. During
a news conference he outlined his focus on better laws for child victims and
child trafficking. And when it came
Nov. 2
MISSISSIPPI:
High Court Won't Hear Appeal From Miss. Death Row Inmate
The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from a Mississippi death row inmate who
pleaded guilty in the rape and killing of a waitress in 2000.
The justices on Monday let stand a lower court ruling that denied
Sug. 9
MISSISSIPPI:
Prosecutor: Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate 'had every
opportunity to save his life'
Condemned killer Richard Gerald Jordan had his chance to live without fear of
execution, but he blew it, the case's prosecuting attorney says, all because of
July 20
MISSISSIPPI:
McGilberry sentencing could be weeks away
Attorneys for a Jackson County man facing re-sentencing on capital murder
charges want a jury to decide his punishment.
Prosecutors said during a hearing Friday that a judge should do it.
Circuit Judge Robert Krebs said
May 6
MISSISSIPPI:
New trial for state's only female death row inmate?The state is seeking a
stay of a federal judge's ruling ordering Mississippi to grant its only female
death row inmate a new trial within 120 days or release her from custody.
The state is seeking a stay of a
May 4
MISSISSIPPI:
Mississippi Man is Exonerated from Death Row
Willie Manning Becomes 153rd Person Added to the Death Penalty Information
Center's Innocence List
May Have Been Wrongfully Convicted of 2 Sets of Murders - 2nd of q Cases Turns
on FBI's False Testimony about Hair and
April 22
MISSISSIPPI:
State Fights Execution Drug Disclosure While Compensating Wrongfully Convicted
At the same time the State of Mississippi continues fighting the release of
details about where it gets drugs used in executions, Mississippi taxpayers
will have to compensate people
July 17
MISSISSIPPInew execution date//NOT serious
Jones County man execution date set for November
On Friday, a Greene County jury found Justin Blakeney guilty of capital murder
and sentenced him to death. His execution date was set for November 19, 2014 by
Judge Billy Joe
April 1
MISSISSIPPI:
Court reverses Miss. death penalty conviction
The state Supreme Court on Monday reversed the 2000 capital murder conviction
of Michelle Byrom, ordering a new trial.
Justice Josiah Dennis Coleman called the high court's decision extraordinary
and extremely rare
March 29
MISSISSIPPI:
New lawsuit challenges Mississippi execution drugs
A new lawsuit by a human rights group raises questions about the quality of the
drugs used to execute Mississippi prison inmates.
The suit against the Mississippi Department of Corrections was filed Friday in
March 25
MISSISSIPPIimpending female execution
Byrom Execution This Week Unlikely; Michelle Byrom is asking the court for
permission to file another petition for post-conviction relief; the state
Supreme Court denied her previous petition for post-conviction.
With the Mississippi
March 19
MISSISSIPPI:
Jim Hood Orders 2 Executions then Defends U.S. Human Rights in Geneva
Last week, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood was in Geneva, Switzerland
representing the U.S. before the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
Hood, the only Democrat holding statewide
March 19
MISSISSIPPIfemale faces execution
An Innocent Woman? Michelle Byrom vs. Mississippi
I sit in my room for a good 1 1/2-2 hours, and dad comes in my room, and goes
off on me, calling me bastard, nogood, mistake, and telling me I'm
inconciderate [sic] and just care about my
Feb. 23
MISSISSIPPIfemale may face death penalty)
Olive Branch woman faces charges in death of her 2-year-old stepson
A 28-year-old Olive Branch woman faces charges in the death of her 2-year-old
stepson who died last month from injuries that police called severe and
suspicious.
Jan. 6
MISSISSIPPI:
The Truth About Choosing Between Life and Death
Serving life without parole is not the big easy. Prisoners who are sentenced to
live behind bars every day until they die are not spending their hours watching
football games in air-conditioned cells.
But imagine
Jan. 4
MISSISSIPPI:
Mississippi death row inmate asks US Supreme Court to hear appeal
Mississippi death row inmate Bobby Batiste has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to
hear his appeal.
Prosecutors have until Feb. 3 to file a respond to Batiste's motion.
The Mississippi Supreme Court
Oct. 24
MISSISSIPPI:
A Tribute to a Prison Warden's Influence on Capital Punishment Abolition
Donald Cabana, a former Mississippi prison warden who presided over executions,
was not the usual ally for me and the National Coalition to Abolish the Death
Penalty. But Donald Cabana
May 5
MISSISSIPPIimpending execution
Justice Dept. admits flaws in forensic testimony in Mississippi death-row case
The Justice Department has acknowledged flaws in forensic testimony by the FBI
that helped convict a man in the 1992 slayings of 2 Mississippi State
University
Jan. 18
MISSISSIPPI:
Solving Kathy Mabry's Murder: Brutal 15-Year-Old Crime Highlights Decades-Long
Mississippi Scandal
J.D. Bubba Roseman, the first black sheriff of Humphreys County, is a
convivial man. In his office and in casual conversations on the street in this
town of 2,200,
June 17
MISSISSIPPIimpending execution
Miss. to execute butcher in dismemberment death
Mississippi is preparing to execute a grocery store butcher convicted of
dismembering a man over a drug debt and raping a woman he locked in a metal
box.
Gary Carl Simmons Jr. is scheduled for
June 13
MISSISSIPPIimpending execution
AG's office says court shouldn't stop execution
The Mississippi attorney general's office argued in a court filing Wednesday
that an inmate's recent request for mental health testing is a tactic to delay
his execution, scheduled for Tuesday.
March 20
MISSISSIPPIimpending executions
Supreme Court Won't Stop Mississippi Execution
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to stop the scheduled execution Larry
Matthew Puckett.
Puckett is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Tuesday for the
sexual assault and slaying
March 20
MISSISSIPPIexecution
Miss. executes man for slaying of wife of ex-boss
A Mississippi man convicted of the 1995 sexual assault and slaying of the wife
of his ex-boss, has been executed.
Larry Matthew Puckett, 35, was pronounced dead at 6:18 p.m. Tuesday following a
March 17
MISSISSIPPIimpending execution
Miss. inmate asks US high court to block execution
A Mississippi prison inmate has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block his
execution Tuesday based on the argument that his lawyers didn't do a good job
and prosecutors discriminated against
March 1
MISSISSIPPI2 new and impending execution dates
Miss. high court sets execution dates for 2
The Mississippi Supreme Court has set execution dates for death row inmates
Larry Matthew Puckett and William Gerald Mitchell.
The court Thursday set an execution date of March 20 for
Feb. 8
MISSISSIPPIimminent execution
Mississippi execution set after court lifts stay
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has denied clemency to death row inmate Edwin Hart
Turner, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday evening at the
State Penitentiary at Parchman.
Feb. 7
MISSISSIPPIexecution delayed
Judge grants delay in Mississippi execution
A federal judge on Monday temporarily halted the scheduled execution of a
convicted murderer in Mississippi in order to allow attorneys to argue whether
the state has improperly kept him from getting
Nov. 29
MISSISSIPPI:
Christopher Baxter gets trial venue change in George County sheriff's death
Christopher Lee Baxter, 1 of 2 people accused in the capital murder death of
George County Sheriff Garry Welford, was granted a change of trial venue
Monday.
The trial was set for Jan.
Oct. 1
MISSISSIPPI:
Family of hate crime-murder victim asks for death penalty to be removed
The family of James Craig Anderson has asked the state of Mississippi and
federal officials to remove the death penalty from the table in regards to the
7 white teenagers who allegedly murdered
Jan. 2
MISSISSIPPI:
Diaz makes compelling plea on death penalty
MISSISSIPPI SUPREME COURT Justice Oliver Diaz Jr. did not go out with a
whisper. He ended his career on the bench with a dissent in the case of
Doss vs. State, issued in mid-December, that was a plea to end the death
Nov. 22
MISSISSIPPI:
Minter found guilty of capital murder
Larry Minter has been found guilty on 2 counts of capital murder in the
deaths of Harond Bucky Levron and Christine Suber.
Minter, 20, was found guilty on 2 counts of capital murder and robbery. He
was found not guilty on the
Sept. 30
MISSISSIPPI:
Miss. Supreme Court hears death row appeal
Attorneys for inmate Anthony Doss have told the Mississippi Supreme Court
that a trial jury was not given all the evidence it needed before
sentencing Doss to death.
Robert McDuff of Jackson, representing Doss, told the
July 23
MISSISSIPPIimminent execution
Bishop shows regret; Barbour denies clemency
Mississippi death-row inmate Dale Leo Bishop has changed his mind about
dying, although he asked a judge for the death penalty when he was
sentenced in 2000 for the beating death of a friend.
He wants
July 22
MISSISSIPPIimpending execution
Bishop requests clemencyFederal court rejects bid to delay execution
Dale Leo Bishop's efforts to avoid execution Wednesday continued today
with more appeals and a request for clemency from Gov. Haley Barbour's
office following a federal
July 20
MISSISSIPPIimpending execution
Miss. to execute man not directly at fault in killing13 states,
military bar execution of criminals in such murder cases
Mississippi prison officials plan to execute Dale Leo Bishop Wednesday -
unless a court halts them.
But this wouldn't be
July 14
MISSISSIPPI:
4 death row inmates want to block executions
The life of Mississippi death row inmate Dale Leo Bishop, scheduled to die
next week, is back in the hands of a federal judge. Bishop is 1 of 4
condemned prisoners who filed a 2007 lawsuit to stop executions in
Mississippi.
May 26
MISSISSIPPI:
Bishop may be next for execution
Mississippi's next legalized execution could be Dale Leo Bishop, convicted
of capital murder in the 1998 death of Mark Gentry in Saltillo.
Attorney Gen. Jim Hood said Bishop's execution could be set as early as
August.
His case is
May 21
MISSISSIPPIimpending execution
Death penalty: Justice should be finally served
When the U.S. Supreme Court last fall intervened at the last moment before
Earl Wesley Berry was to be given lethal injection, family members of the
victim were incensed.
Charles Bounds, whose wife
May 20
MISSISSIPPIimpending execution
Berrys attorneys ask hearing on retardation claims
Attorneys for convicted murderer Earl Wesley Berry have asked the U.S.
Supreme Court to hear his claims he is mentally retarded and, thus, cannot
be put to death.
The motion for rehearing was
May 17
MISSISSIPPI:
Berry appeals execution sentence
With less than a week to go before his scheduled execution, Earl Wesley
Berry's lawyers want the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans to
decide if he is mentally retarded, and if so, stop his execution.
They also say they will
May 2
MISSISSIPPI:
Hood still pursuing executionAG rests argument on Supreme Court ruling
affirming lethal injection
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood on Thursday continued seeking the
execution of convicted killer Earl Wesley Berry by saying the state's
lethal injection method is
Nov. 3
MISSISSIPPI:
Prentiss man re-sentenced to life without parole in officer's death
Circuit Judge Prentiss Harrell has re-sentenced inmate Cory Maye to life
in prison without early release or parole in the killing a Prentiss police
officer.
District Attorney Hal Kittrell announced
Oct. 30
MISSISSIPPIimpending execution stayed
Court delays Mississippi execution
Over the dissents of 2 Justices, the Supreme Court on Tuesday postponed
the execution of Mississippi death row inmate Earl Wesley Berry. Justices
Samuel A. Alito, Jr., and Antonin Scalia noted that they
Oct. 30
MISSISSIPPIimpending execution
Eyes on Supreme Court in Execution Case Tuesday
By 6 p.m. Tuesday, when a Mississippi inmate is scheduled to die by lethal
injection, the Supreme Court may give the clearest indication so far of
whether it intends to call a halt to all such
Oct. 16
MISSISSIPPI:
Berry asks Miss. court to delay execution
Earl Wesley Berry has asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to delay his
scheduled Oct. 30 execution.
In an order signed this past week, Presiding Justice Bill Waller Jr. said
nothing prevents the court from setting the
Oct. 5
MISSISSIPPI:
Killer could still get deathExpert: Lethal injection debate not a
barrier
Earl Wesley Berry's 19-year fight to avoid execution for beating a woman
to death should end soon despite the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to
review whether death by lethal injection is
Aug. 29
MISSISSIPPI:
Mississippi Death Row Inmate Stabbed To Death
Earnest Lee Hargon, on death row since December 2005 for murdering a
Vaughan couple and their young son, was stabbed to death Tuesday night,
August 28, by a fellow inmate at the state prison in Parchman.
Sunflower
July 7
MISSISSIPPI:
Prison unit unlivableMDOC chief denies charges
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Mississippi Department of
Corrections are continuing their sparring over allegations of poor
conditions at Unit 32 at the Parchman state penitentiary.
In a June 29 letter to
July 6
MISSISSIPPI:
MDOC leader dismisses the group's allegations
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Mississippi Department of
Corrections are continuing their sparing over allegations of poor
conditions at Unit 32 at the Parchman state penitentiary.
In a June 29 letter to U.S.
Feb. 7
MISSISSIPPI:
In pursuit of justice
The Mississippi House passed a bill Tuesday that would make it a state
crime for law enforcement officers to deprive people of their rights,
injure or kill them, and the Senate should soon follow suit, followed by
the governor's signature.
The
Oct. 18
MISSISSIPPIimpending execution Wilcher to ask Supreme Court to block
execution
The attorney for death row inmate Bobby Glen Wilcher will file an appeal
with the U.S. Supreme Court today in hope of blocking Wilcher's execution.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday
Oct. 17
MISSISSIPPIimpending execution
For the 2nd time this year, Wilcher's execution draws near
For the 2nd time in just four months, Mississippi death row inmate Bobby
Glen Wilcher is waiting to die, consulting with his attorney and asking an
appeals court to spare his life.
Oct. 6
MISSISSIPPI:
Wilcher revives appeals, seeks delay in setting execution date
Mississippi death row inmate Bobby Glen Wilcher says in court papers filed
Friday that he wants to revive his federal appeals and he's asking the
Mississippi Supreme Court to not set an execution date until
Sept. 26
MISSISSIPPI:
Lawyer defends work in overturned sentence
Jackson lawyer Rhonda Cooper said Monday she did her job in defending Cory
Maye of Prentiss, who was convicted of killing a police officer in a 2001
drug raid.
I was trying to save somebody's life, she said. It was do or
July 19
MISSISSIPPI:
Miss. failing to use death penalty
It is with great disbelief that I have read on your Web site that the
execution of a man who has been on Death Row for 24 years was stayed by
the U.S. Supreme Court (Stay granted, July 12).
I lived in Mississippi all of my life until
July 18
MISSISSIPPI:
Miss. Death Row Appeal Tops Court Agenda
The death penalty appeal of Bobby Glen Wilcher will be among the first
cases the U.S. Supreme Court will discuss when justices return from
vacation this fall.
The justices have scheduled a Sept. 25 conference on the Mississippi
June 19
MISSISSIPPI:
AG: Supreme Court death penalty ruling to result in more cost, paperwork
Attorney General Jim Hood says a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that opens the
door to more constitutional challenges to the death penalty will result in
more costs and paperwork in Mississippi, but
Jan. 5
MISSISSIPPI:
Miss. high court upholds death sentence in George Co. case
The Mississippi Supreme Court has rejected arguments from a death row
inmate that his appearance in a George County courtroom in shackles
tainted prospective jurors and required he get a new trial.
The
Dec. 14
MISSISSIPPI-execution
State executes killer
The state executed its 1st inmate in 3 years at 6:25 p.m. today when John
B. Nixon Sr. was pronounced dead at Mississippi State Penitentiary.
His mood changed from cheerful and chatty to somber and withdrawn as the
time of his
Dec. 13
MISSISSIPPIimpending execution
Death penaltyNixon earned his ultimate sentence
Humane? -- The state injecting into John B. Nixon's veins a lethal dose of
the sedative sodium thiopental, leading to a deep sleep, is more humane
than the last moments of terror and bullet to
Dec. 12
MISSISSIPPIimpending execution
Clemency for killer rejected
Condemned killer John B. Nixon Sr.'s last hope for avoiding execution
Wednesday now rests with the U.S. Supreme Court after Gov. Haley Barbour
denied his clemency request.
I find nothing to convince me that clemency
Dec. 9
MISSISSIPPI:
Miss. death row inmate asks governor for clemency
Mississippi death row inmate John B. Nixon Sr. has asked Gov. Haley
Barbour to spare his life.
Nixon, 77, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday at the Mississippi State
Penitentiary at Parchman.
While Nixon's attorneys
URGENT ACTION APPEAL5 December 2005
UA 304/05 Death Penalty/ legal concern
USA /Mississippi: John Nixon
John Nixon (m), white, aged 77, is scheduled to be executed on 14 December
2005. He was sentenced to death in 1986 for the murder of Virginia Tucker
in January 1985. Nixon's current
Nov. 21
MISSISSIPPI:
Miss. high court to hear death sentence appeal in Adams Co. case
The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear arguments Dec. 12 in Jeffery Keith
Havard's appeal of the death sentence he received for the killing of a
6-month-old girl in Adams County.
Havard was convicted
Nov. 19
MISSISSIPPI:
Former Mississippi death row inmate re-sentenced
Former Mississippi death row inmate Stephen Virgil McGilberry has been
resentenced to 4 consecutive life sentences without parole.
Jackson County Circuit Judge Robert P. Krebs resentenced McGilberry on
Friday for the
Nov. 16
MISSISSIPPI:
Nixon's death row odyssey is a pathetic joke
The death penalty in Mississippi - currently invoked by Mississippi juries
for 69 inmates who killed people while in the commission of another felony
like robbery, rape or kidnapping - remains a pathetic joke.
It's
Sept. 15
MISSISSIPPIjuvenile offender removed from death row
Miss. death row inmate ordered re-sentenced to life in prison
Kelvin Dycus was 17 when he participated in the brutal 1996 slaying of an
elderly Rosedale woman.
On Thursday, the Mississippi Supreme Court ordered Dycus
June 21
MISSISSIPPI:
U.S. Supreme Court won't hear two Miss. death row cases
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear appeals from Mississippi death
row inmates Rodney Gray and William Ray Hughes.
The court acted Monday without comment.
In September, the Mississippi Supreme Court
July 12
MISSISSIPPI:
Triple killing appeal scheduledMississippi Supreme Court to hear
Louisiana man's case Aug. 11
The appeal of a Louisiana man sentenced to death for killing his son,
daughter-in-law and granddaughter has made its way to the Mississippi
Supreme Court.
The justices
August 4
MISSISSIPPIjuvenile offender removed from death row
Miss. high court orders life sentence for Foster
In Jackson, the Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the death
sentence of Ronald Chris Foster and ordered the Lowndes County Circuit
Court to re-sentence him to
June 25
MISSISSIPPI:
Court rejects death sentence appeal
Inmate Blayde Grayson contended his attorneys failed to do all they could
to prevent the imposition of the death penalty, but the Mississippi
Supreme Court said Thursday the lawyers were only following Grayson's
instructions.
The
June 28
MISSISSIPPI:
Appeals Court Upholds Order To Clean Up Mississippi Death Row
In Jackson, a federal appeals court has ordered the state of Mississippi
to fix toilets, and add screen windows and fans to cells on death row at
the state penitentiary at Parchman.
A 3-judge panel of the
July 3
MISSISSIPPI:
High court denies appeals for 2 inmates on death row
2 death-row inmates have been denied post-conviction appeals because the
Mississippi Supreme Court ruled this week they raised no new issues on
which they could win a new trial.
Earl Wesley Berry and Dale Leo Bishop
August 27
MISSISSIPPI:
Retardation claim is deniedState high court also revises decision on
hearings for mentally retarded inmates
The Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday refused to allow condemned
inmate William L. Wiley to pursue a claim of mental retardation in DeSoto
County.
Sept. 2
MISSISSIPPI:
ACLU tours penitentiary unit, calls for upgrades in other areas
Attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union called Wednesday for the
state to extend court-ordered improvements to Parchman's death row to
other areas of the unit where some of Mississippi's most
Sept. 27
MISSISSIPPI:
Man's appeal before Miss. High Court
The Mississippi Supreme Court was scheduled to hear an appeal today from
death row inmate Roger Eric Thorson.
It is Thorson's second appeal before the Supreme Court.
Thorson was sentenced to death in 2002. He was convicted in
Jan. 16
MISSISSIPPI:
High court to review death-row appeal
The U.S. Supreme Court is taking a closer look at the appeal of
Mississippi inmate Stephen Elliot Powers, sentenced to death for the 1998
killing of a University of Southern Mississippi student.
The justices were initially
Feb. 18
MISSISSIPPI:
Ocean Springs Murder Appeal Rejected By High Court
The Mississippi Supreme Court has rejected arguments from a convicted
murderer that a 4-year delay between his arrest and trial was a violation
of his constitutional rights. Michael Shane Manix was convicted of
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