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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]
The State of Mississippi used hanging as its method of execution for much of its history. [7] From the earliest recorded execution in 1818 to 2004, records indicate that the state executed a total of 794 people. Of these, the great majority were black males, who account for 639 of recorded executions. [9]
Cox was the first person to be executed in Mississippi after the state's nine-year moratorium on capital punishment. The last execution took place in 2012 prior to Cox's execution. [25] Cox was the 18th person in the state to be subjected to execution by lethal injection since 2002. [26]
The Mississippi Supreme Court set an execution date of Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, for Cox after he said he wanted to surrender all appeals. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) (ASSOCIATED PRESS ...
Mississippi State Penitentiary, where Johnson was held on death row and executed. Edward Earl Johnson (June 22, 1960 – May 20, 1987) [1] was a man convicted in 1979 at the age of 18 and subsequently executed by the U.S. state of Mississippi for the murder of a policeman, J.T. Trest, and the sexual assault of a 69-year-old woman, Sally Franklin.
Born in Midnight in Humphreys County, Mississippi, he was executed in 2005 by the State of Mississippi. At 77 years old, Nixon, who was a World War II veteran, was the oldest person executed since 1976 and, according to the Espy Files compiled by M. Watt Espy , the oldest person executed in the United States since Joe Lee in Virginia at the age ...
Thomas Edwin Loden Jr. was the second condemned person to be executed in Mississippi after the state's resumption of executions in 2021, and he was the 23rd criminal overall to be executed in Mississippi since 1983 after the U.S. resumed the use of capital punishment in 1976.
PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — A man who raped and killed a 16-year-old girl in Mississippi was put to death by lethal injection on Wednesday, becoming the second inmate executed in the state in 10 years.