Execution set for man who killed 2 nieces and 2 nephews
PARCHMAN – (AP) A death row inmate scheduled to die tonight by lethal injection has asked Governor Phil Bryant for clemency. Henry Curtis Jackson was convicted in 1991 of killing his two nieces and two...
View ArticleInmate executed for killing four children
By Monica Land PARCHMAN – Despite a last minute appeal to the governor and a plea from his three sisters – including one he repeatedly stabbed in the neck before killing two of her children – Henry...
View ArticleProsecutors: Miss. court shouldn’t stay Brawner execution
From Media Reports JACKSON – The Mississippi attorney general’s office argued Friday that the state Supreme Court should not grant a stay of execution for an inmate scheduled to die by injection today....
View ArticleInmate denied stay of execution for killing daughter, ex-wife, in-laws
By Monica Land PARCHMAN – A death row inmate convicted of killing his 3-year-old-daughter, his ex-wife and her parents was executed Tuesday night despite repeated appeals by his attorney to the...
View ArticleMiss. AG: Test wouldn’t exonerate death row inmate
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says a new round of DNA testing on evidence collected against death row inmate Willie Jerome Manning would not exonerate him in the 1992 deaths of two students....
View ArticleManning granted stay of execution due to ‘flawed’ hair analysis
A death row inmate convicted of killing two college students in December 1992 has been issued a stay of execution after his attorneys raised doubts as to what they call ‘new evidence.’ Willie Jerome...
View ArticleDeath row inmate Willie Jerome Manning wins new trial in killing of...
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — A Mississippi death row inmate has won a new trial after the state Supreme Court found police investigators withheld evidence from prosecutors and defense attorneys that...
View ArticleInmate challenge to death sentence goes back to trial court
By JACK ELLIOTT JR. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court is allowing death row inmate Eddie Lee Howard Jr. to go back to trial court to argue that his sentence should be thrown out. The...
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