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A Hinds County sheriff’s deputy ordered Hankins, her sister, friends, a reporter and a photographer away from the cemetery. Grisham-Stewart did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Since NBC News started documenting botched death notifications in Hinds County, Mississippi, the families of seven men have said they were not told of their loved ones' burials.
The Hinds County, Mississippi, coroner's office, under fire for burying people in pauper’s graves without their families’ knowledge, released an undated policy on death notifications.
Robert Burt DeLaughter Sr. (born February 28, 1954, in Vicksburg, Mississippi) is a former state prosecutor and then Hinds County Circuit Judge. He prosecuted and secured the conviction in 1994 of Byron De La Beckwith, charged with the murder of the civil rights leader Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963. Two earlier trials in Mississippi in 1964 had ...
He ran for becoming the Hinds County prosecutor in 1968 and lost. He won the election to become the Hinds County prosecutor in 1972. [2] In 1977, he ran for the mayor office of Jackson, Mississippi as a Democrat, beating Republican candidate Doug Shanks. [7] [8] He won re-election in 1981. [2]
Verell Pennington Ferguson was born on July 21, 1859, in Vaiden, Carroll County, Mississippi, to Daniel Echols Ferguson and Caroline (Denman) Ferguson. [1] [2] [3] He was of Scotch ancestry. [2] Verell's occupation was a farmer and a planter. He married Eliza Roberts in 1877. [1]
The Hinds County Board of Supervisors approves the requests. NBC News is also continuing its reporting on paupers’ burials and cremations. If you would like to share your experience, ...
James Craig Anderson was a 47-year-old American man who was murdered in a hate crime in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 26, 2011, by 18-year-old Deryl Dedmon of Brandon.At the time of his death, Anderson was working on the assembly line at the Nissan plant in Canton, and raising an adopted son with his partner.