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Nov 16, 2021 · CRIME. Who's on Mississippi's death row? See the list of inmates awaiting execution. Mina Corpuz. Hattiesburg American. The State Penitentiary at Parchman houses more than 3,000 inmates....
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- Replacing Slavery
- The Birth of Parchman
- Change Comes to Parchman
- Parchman Today
The origins of Parchman Farm reach back to the fall of the Confederacy. In 1865, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery, and from one day to the next, the population of free blacks in Mississippi nearly doubled. To whites, especially those with money and power, this posed an existential threat. "The plantation owners, as best they could, wanted black...
News broke in The Clarion Ledgeron December 17, 1900, under a headline that read, "NEW CONVICT FARM." The Mississippi Penitentiary Board of Control had purchased 13,000 acres of land in fertile Sunflower County, along the Yazoo-Delta railroad. "The land is all uncleared and none of it has ever been in cultivation," the article stated. "The purchase...
With the passage of a state prison reform bill in 1964, small changes began to take hold at Parchman. Use of the lash, Black Annie, was banned. Mechanical equipment was brought in to increase agricultural yields and ease the physical toll of farm work. Vocational training and job counseling were offered for the first time. "We're trying to get away...
Curtis Flowers was sent to Parchman in 1997. At that time, death row was housed in Unit 32, the prison's infamous supermax facility. We haven't heard Curtis' account of life there because the Mississippi Department of Corrections denied our requestto interview him. However, there's one man in Mississippi who was condemned to death row and is now fr...
- Parker Yesko
Nov 17, 2021 · Thirty-six men and one woman are currently on death row in Mississippi. The state hasn't put anyone to death since 2012.
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Aug 24, 2023 · The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, that former death row inmate Howard M. Neal, will be resentenced a second time because of a determination that he has intellectual disabilities. The new sentence will make Neal eligible for the possibility of parole.
Nov 29, 2022 · 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 in about two weeks.
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Dec 15, 2022 · CNN — Mississippi has executed Thomas Loden Jr., who was sentenced to death for the 2000 murder of a 16-year-old girl, amid a legal challenge by him and other inmates to the state’s lethal...
