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| Miss. may be on execution hiatus |
| By clarionledger.com- Jack Elliott Jr. |
| Published: 09/02/2014 |
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Mississippi hasn’t had an execution in two years, and state Attorney General Jim Hood says he can’t predict when another might occur. No Mississippi death row appeals are presently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, he said. “We usually make predictions on timing based on cases pending before that court,” Hood told The Associated Press last week. “There is no way to really know an exact timeline on any of these type cases,” he said. “They are all making their way through the system at various paces. We have some nearing the end of their normal track of appeals, but there is just no way to know when we might have a case that would warrant the filing of a motion to set an execution date.” Read More. |
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