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The state Supreme Court wants to know how local courts provide lawyers, if any, to poor people after their arrest.
Richard Jordan, the longest-serving and oldest person on Mississippi's death row, was executed on June 25 for the 1976 murder ...
U.S. Supreme Court has issued a new ruling limiting the power of federal judges to block President Trump’s executive orders.
Judge Jerry D. Sharp took the oath of office for chancellor of the 19th Chancery District during an investiture ceremony in ...
Those executed included Thomas Gudinas, whose mental illness was shaped by his abusive upbringing and neglect, and Richard ...
The Mississippi Immigration Rights Alliance is working to understand the implications of a Supreme Court decision affecting ...
Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.
The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in ...
Jordan's execution came decades after he kidnapped and killed 35-year-old Edwina Marter, who was shot in the back of the head ...
Despite decades of attempted legal interference and motions filed to prevent it, Mississippi's longest-serving death row ...