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Howard Monteville Neal (born September 14, 1953) is an American murderer and self-confessed serial killer.Convicted and sentenced to death for killing his half-brother and two nieces in Arm, Mississippi in 1981, his sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment after it was concluded that Neal was intellectually disabled.
Stephanie Diana Wilson (born September 27, 1966) [1] is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. She flew to space onboard three Space Shuttle missions, and is the second African American woman to go into space, after Mae Jemison .
As a historical docudrama, Murder in Mississippi precedes the storylines of both 1975's Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan and 1988's Mississippi Burning. Murder in Mississippi is the title of a 1964 Norman Rockwell painting depicting the same events. The painting is also known as Southern Justice.
Mississippi: 1913: Murder of John C. Williams, Wife of the Deputy Chancery Clerk: Dragged from jail and hanged at a nearby tree, upon the alleged statement of two African-American women; [324] the women who made the statement were arrested the next day for making a false statement, according to one source [325] and/or disappeared. [326]
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Mississippi since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. Since 1976, 23 people convicted of capital murder have been executed by the state of Mississippi. Of the 23 people executed, 4 were executed via gas chamber and 19 via lethal injection. [1]
Bill Wilson: Murder* Blount County, Alabama: Life in prison 6 years Yes Wilson was convicted of murdering his wife, Jenny Wilson, and their 19-month-old daughter. Bones presented by the prosecution in court were later discovered to be those of at least four or five people and likely of indigenous ethnicity.
Lisa Marie Nowak (née Caputo; born May 10, 1963) is an American aeronautical engineer, former NASA astronaut, and retired United States Navy officer. Nowak served as naval flight officer and test pilot in the Navy, and was selected by NASA for NASA Astronaut Group 16 in 1996, qualifying as a mission specialist in robotics.
Unidentified murder victims in Mississippi (1 P) Pages in category "People murdered in Mississippi" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.