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How many people are on death row in Mississippi?
Before Biden’s December commutations, Mississippi’s ratio of prisoners on death row was more than six times higher than the federal system. The current makeup of death row inmates is 60% Black ...
Death row killer ordered biggest ever final meal that was massive 29,000 calories
US killer Gary Carl Simmons gobbled on a huge feast totalling up to nearly 30,000 calories for his final meal on death row ...
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Who were the 37 federal death row prisoners that Biden commuted sentences for? See a list
The Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit that tracks capital punishment information, lists inmates ... in Mississippi. There are currently 35 people on the state's death row, according ...
Attorneys argued insanity but a Mississippi man was convicted and sits on death row. Why?
Charles Crawford was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 1994, but he says his attorneys pleaded insanity, ...
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MS man whose death sentence was overturned in 2023 is now facing death again. Here's why
A man on Mississippi's death row whose conviction was overturned last year will remain on death row after a federal appellate court said the lower court made the ...
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Death Row Inmate 'Overjoyed' at Biden Commuting His Sentence
More Courtesy of Kelley Henry Taylor is one of the first Death Row inmates to publicly respond to news last Monday that Biden was changing the sentences of the 37 condemned men to life in prison ...