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Mississippi Picks Up Pace on Executions

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an analysis written by Jack Elliott for AP, via the Gulfport Sun-Herald.  LINK The three longest serving inmates on Mississippi's death row have been there a combined 88 years. Logic would suggest they'd be next in line for execution, but they're probably not. Richard Jordan (33 years), William Wiley (28 years) and James Billiot (27 years) have appeals pending in the federal courts, and their cases could be tied up another year or two. The recent executions of Paul Everette Woodward and Gerald James Holland have prompted Attorney General Jim Hood and Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps to say as many as three more death sentences could be carried out this year. Epps said his staff at the Parchman penitentiary can handle the job, particularly with the first back-to-back executions over two days in nearly 50 years...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 01, 2010 (boomark / email).