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Prison reform advocate Mitzi Magleby (left) and Rev. Jeff Hood, Execution Intervention Project co-founder, protest the state's upcoming executions during a press conference on the steps of the Supreme Court, Wednesday, May 28, 2025 in Jackson. Hood's daughter Madeleine holds one end of a banner with her brother Quinley (not pictured). Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

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Advocates for death row inmates challenge Mississippi’s ‘fixation in snuffing them out’
By MINA CORPUZ - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,05/29/25-11:44AM , 583 Reads 4,255 Statewide
Advocates who oppose the death penalty and are organizing to halt further executions in the state stood outside the Mississippi Supreme Court Wednesday to send a message to the justices and the attorney general: Stand down.
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Justices set execution date for oldest, longest serving death row inmate
By MINA CORPUZ - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,05/02/25-11:12AM , 730 Reads 6,533 Statewide
Decades after Richard Jordan received a death sentence and went through years of appeals, the Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled his execution, the oldest and longest serving person on Mississippi’s death row.
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Federal funding loss puts help for domestic violence, crime victims at risk
By MINA CORPUZ - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Tue,04/29/25-2:22PM , 309 Reads 5,591 Statewide
“When people are making these decisions to pull the grants out, they are not understanding these shelters do more work than at our 19-bed facility.”
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With domestic violence law, victims ‘will be a number with a purpose,’ mother says
By MINA CORPUZ - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Mon,04/28/25-11:28AM , 377 Reads 8,833 Statewide
Joslin Napier. Carlos Collins. Bailey Mae Reed.
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