Word: parchman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...midday sun blazes over a yard at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. Enter three new arrivals in clean jump suits, their possessions bundled in white sheets. The other inmates, skinheaded and clad in sweaty green jump suits, watch as prison officers in camouflage uniforms set upon the trio. "Can't you move any faster than that, son?" barks an officer, after ordering the new men to unpack and then repack their belongings. One panicked inmate starts to respond. Snarls the officer: "You don't ask me questions, son! Do you understand that?" "Yessir." "I can't hear you. Speak...
EXECUTED. Jimmy Lee Gray, 34; for the 1976 killing of a three-year-old girl he had sexually assaulted; by cyanide gas; in Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Miss. Gray, who spent nearly seven years on death row, was the first convict executed in Mississippi since...