Entries tagged with “David Cox”

Nov 16, 2021

Execution ‘Volunteer’ First to be Put to Death in Mississippi in Nine Years

Mississippi carried out its first execution in more than nine years on November 17, 2021, putting to death a man with mental health disorders who had waived his appeals. David Neal Cox became at least the 150^th person since executions resumed in the United States in 1977 to drop their appeals and “volunteer” for execution. Executions of volunteers account for 10% of all U.S. executions in that period. In February 2021, a Union County judge ruled that Cox — who pled guilty in 2012 to capital…