By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge will decide whether to block Mississippi from using three drugs when it puts inmates to death, and his ruling could determine whether the state carries out its next execution…
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled that a death row inmate will not be allowed to seek additional DNA testing on crime scene evidence from the shooting deaths of two college students…
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi death row inmate has told a judge under oath that he wants to continue appealing his case, months after saying he wanted to give up his appeals and request an…
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi judge will hold a hearing next month to determine if a death row inmate truly wants to request an execution date and if the inmate is mentally competent to waive…
A man waiting on death row for his execution for the 1996 death of a George County woman will have to return to court. Blayde Grayson, 37, was convicted in 1997 of killing 78-year-old Minnie Smith after she woke after…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An attorney for a Mississippi inmate is asking the state Supreme Court to dismiss the inmate’s request for an execution date. Blayde Nathaniel Grayson has been on death row 24…
A Mississippi judge has dismissed a murder charge against a man who spent more than a quarter-century on death row. Eddie Lee Howard was convicted of capital murder in the 1992 stabbing death of an 84-year-old woman. District Attorney Scott…
By Associated Press ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate spared from execution by questions over whether dementia had erased memories of his crime has died on death row. The Alabama Department of Corrections said in a statement Monday that…
A death row inmate is asking for new sentencing 24 years after being convicted of killing a Long Beach woman. Fifty-year-old Alan Dale Walker appeared in Harrison County Court today. He is asking for a psych evaluation and re-sentencing, alleging…