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In Legal Terms: MS Executions


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In Legal Terms, the show about you and your rights hosted by attorney Adam Kilgore. [email protected]


Mississippi has scheduled an execution for tomorrow, June 24th. Who is it? How to they propose to do it? What are the options for the prisoner to stop it? We’ll learn with our guests: Krissy C. Nobile, Director of The Mississippi Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel, Beth Windham, an attorney with CPCC, and attorney David Voisin.


According to the MS Department of Corrections: Since Mississippi joined the Union in 1817, several forms of execution have been used. Hanging was the first form of execution used until 1940. Then the electric chair was used until 1952. In 1954, the gas chamber was installed at the Mississippi State Penitentiary and used until 1989. After that lethal injection was used.

How many ways can a person be executed in Mississippi?  During the 2017 regular session of the Mississippi Legislature, lawmakers amended the law to allow death sentences to be carried out by lethal injection, nitrogen hypoxia, electrocution, or firing squad.


The recent municipal elections have shown every vote counts. Are you ready for Augusts special primary? Folks in the Hernando/Southaven/Olive Branch area, folks in the Starkville/Columbus area, and folks in the Hattiesburg area have a Special election primary coming up. But good news! There’s time to get registered to vote so you can participate in electing the folks that make our laws.

You can register to vote at your Circuit Clerk’s office, your Municipal Clerk’s office, when you get your driver’s license at the Department of Public Safety, or through the mail by downloading a voter registration form from the Secretary of State’s website and mailing it to your Circuit Clerk.


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