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  2. Capital punishment in Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. List of people executed in Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    Notes. ^ Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, Mississippi is the state with the highest amount of executions via gas chamber. ^ The 4 victims were: Glenda Reid, Wesley Lee Reid, Dylan Lee, and Heath Pounds. ^ The 4 victims were: Shunterica Lonnett Jackson, Dominique Devro Jackson, Antonio Terrell Jackson, and Andrew Odutola ...

  4. Edward Earl Johnson - Wikipedia

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    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. Throughout his eight years on death row, he continued to plead his innocence.

  5. Should a man on death row be allowed to keep fighting ... - AOL

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    July 23, 2024 at 6:39 AM. For a second time this year, the Mississippi Supreme Court denied a man on death row a chance to be heard and offered no explanation as to why as of Monday afternoon ...

  6. Carla Hughes - Wikipedia

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    Carla Hughes. Carla Ann Hughes (born June 12, 1981) [ 1] is a former middle school teacher and murderer from Jackson, Mississippi, who was convicted of two counts of capital murder for the November 29, 2006 slayings of her lover's pregnant fiancee, Avis Banks, and Banks's unborn child. [ 2] She is serving two consecutive sentences of life ...

  7. Roper v. Simmons - Wikipedia

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    Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held that it is unconstitutional to impose capital punishment for crimes committed while under the age of 18. [ 1] The 5–4 decision overruled Stanford v. Kentucky, in which the court had upheld execution of offenders at ...

  8. Emmett Till - Wikipedia

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    Emmett Till. Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American teenager who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers drew attention to the long history of ...

  9. Jimmy Lee Gray - Wikipedia

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    Jimmy Lee Gray. Jimmy Lee Gray (September 25, 1948 – September 2, 1983) [ 1] was an American criminal convicted for the kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of three-year-old Deressa Jean Scales in 1976. [ 2] At the time of this murder, he was free on parole after serving seven years of a 20-year-to-life sentence for the 1968 murder of his ...