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WSFA
March 23, 2018
The state joins Mississippi and Oklahoma as the only others allowing the nitrogen method for execution, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The method has never been used by any state to execute an inmate, however, and remains untested. ACLU of Alabama Executive Director RandallÃâà...
Texas Tribune
March 22, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Texas death row inmate Wednesday, ordering a federal appellate court to reconsider providing funding for him to ... The 5th Circuit, which covers Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi and politically leans heavily to the right, requires that poor inmates facing the deathÃâà...
12news.com KPNX
March 22, 2018
JACKSON, Miss. — The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated the death sentence of Mississippi's only female death row inmate. The ruling Tuesday came almost three years after a federal court ruling granted Lisa Jo Chamberlin, 45, a new trial in a double homicide in Hattiesburg, Miss., about 85Ãâà...
NOLA.com
March 22, 2018
The 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has reinstated the death sentence of Mississippi's only female death row inmate, who along her boyfriend was convicted in the 2014 murder and dismemberment of a couple in Hattiesburg, the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reported. The reinstatement of Lisa Jo Chamberlin'sÃâà...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
March 22, 2018
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated the death sentence of Mississippi's only female death row inmate. The ruling Tuesday came almost three years after a federal court ruling granted Lisa Jo Chamberlin, 45, a new trial in a double homicide in Hattiesburg, Miss., about 85 miles southeast ofÃâà...
Mississippi News Now
March 21, 2018
Lisa Jo Chamberlin is headed back to death row for a murder she committed in 2004. Source: MS Department of Corrections. JACKSON, Miss (AP) -. A federal appeals court is sending a Mississippi woman back to death row after reinstating a murder conviction previously overturned by federal judges.
AL.com
March 7, 2018
A bill to allow death row inmates to be executed by nitrogen gas passed the Alabama House on Wednesday. "It's about options. It's not a ... Pittman said two states - Mississippi and Oklahoma - allow for death by nitrogen hypoxia but the method has yet to be used in an execution. The state Senate passedÃâà...
Reason
February 27, 2018
Jeffrey Havard's story began the evening of February 21, 2002, when the Mississippi man was keeping an eye on Chloe, the 6-month-old daughter of his girlfriend, Rebecca Britt. According to Havard, Chloe had spit up on her clothes and bedding, so he gave the girl a bath. As he pulled her up out of the tubÃâà...
Dailyleader
February 22, 2018
Flowers was convicted and sentenced to death during his sixth trial, in 2010. The Mississippi Supreme Court upheld that conviction in 2014. Then, in 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court told state justices to review whether there was discrimination in how some black people were excluded as potential jurors.
