JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court has not set execution dates for two inmates, making it increasingly unlikely that either execution would take place this week. Attorney General Jim Hood had asked the […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The lawyer for a man convicted of killing a woman in Tunica County nearly two decades ago argued Tuesday to the Mississippi Supreme Court that DNA evidence prosecutors used to link […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The attorney general’s office is asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to set execution dates for two death row inmates. In the motions filed Monday, the attorney general’s office says the U.S. […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld the capital murder and death sentence given Jason Lee Keller for the 2007 fatal shooting and robbery of a Harrison County convenience store owner. Keller, […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The attorney general’s office has asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to set an execution date for death row inmate Erik Wayne Hollie. Hollie was sentenced to death by a Copiah County […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court is looking again at a child support question it first addressed earlier this year. But with a twist. In a 5-4 decision in June, the Supreme Court […]
GREENWOOD, Mississippi (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court has again denied a motion from a Greenwood doctor charged in a murder-for-hire case to remove the judge appointed to preside over his case. The Greenwood Commonwealth reports that […]
The Mississippi Supreme Court has denied death row inmate Blayde Grayson’s petition for a rehearing.
Grayson, 37, was convicted in George County in 1997. He was found guilty of the 1996 slaying of 78-year-old Minnie Smith during a house burglary. Authorities say Smith was stabbed more than 30 times on the night she died in her rural home at the edge of the Pascagoula River flats.
The state Supreme Court upheld Grayson’s capital murder conviction and death sentence in 2001. […]
The Mississippi Supreme Court has ordered a new trial for one of several teens convicted in the slaying of a man who was shot after stopping to ask for directions to his grandson’s football game.
Linda and Michael David Porter had gotten lost going to their grandson’s football game in Moss Point in 2008. Authorities say he was shot during a robbery attempt at a gas station.
Tevin James Benjamin, who was 14 at the time of the shooting, was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison. […]
The Mississippi Supreme Court will consider a post-conviction petition from death row inmate Blayde Grayson.
The case is among dozens before the Supreme Court during its January-February term. The Supreme Court has not scheduled oral arguments in the case.
In a post-conviction petition, an inmate argues he has found new evidence – or a possible constitutional issue – that could persuade a court to order a new trial. […]
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