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The Supreme Court of Mississippi set an execution date for a man sentenced to the death penalty for killing his wife in 2010, reported CBS 42.
The execution of David Neal Cox is scheduled for 17 November 2021 at 6: 03 pm
Cox pleaded guilty to shooting his wife Kim in 2010 in the town of Shannon in Union County, raping her daughter in front of her and watching Kim Cox die as police negotiators and her relatives begged for her life. He also pleaded guilty to seven other crimes without reaching an agreement with prosecutors that excluded the death penalty. A jury sentenced him to death.
Mississippi Hasn’t executed anyone since 2012, amid legal disputes over lethal injection procedures and difficulties in acquiring drugs for execution.
The employees of the Mississippi prison will carry out execution trials for the death penalty once a week as the state prepares for its first execution since 2012, reported the Commissioner of Corrections Burl Cain .
Cain told The Associated Press on Friday that trials for a lethal injection are generally held once a month at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, following a protocol of approximately 20 pages. Cain confirmed that Mississippi obtained lethal injection drugs, but declined to say how.
The Mississippi DOC Commissioner has confirmed that the state has drugs to carry out David Cox’s execution, scheduled for November 17.
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