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Carla Hughes. Carla Ann Hughes (born June 12, 1981) [1] is a former middle school teacher and murderer from Jackson, Mississippi, who was convicted of two counts of capital murder for the November 29, 2006 slayings of her lover's pregnant fiancee, Avis Banks, and Banks's unborn child. [2] She is serving two consecutive sentences of life without ...
Notes. ^ Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, Mississippi is the state with the highest amount of executions via gas chamber. ^ The 4 victims were: Glenda Reid, Wesley Lee Reid, Dylan Lee, and Heath Pounds. ^ The 4 victims were: Shunterica Lonnett Jackson, Dominique Devro Jackson, Antonio Terrell Jackson, and Andrew Odutola ...
On January 13, 2019, George Robinson, a 62-year-old Black man, died two days after a violent arrest by three Black police officers in Jackson, Mississippi. According to a grand jury indictment, the officers pulled Robinson out of a car, threw him headfirst into the pavement, and struck and kicked him multiple times in the head and chest.
Gannett. Pam Dankins, Mississippi Clarion Ledger. April 4, 2024 at 1:17 PM. The U.S. Department of Justice announced via a Thursday press release that the department will provide "technical ...
May 2, 2024 at 2:37 AM. Clarion Ledger reporting shows the City of Jackson has seen 45 homicides from Jan. 1 to April 30, 2024, with an alarming trend of the murders occurring during the month of ...
The City of Jackson has settled Robinson's wrongful death lawsuit filed by Wade for $17,786.25. Robinson, who is also Black, was hospitalized later that night and died two days later.
Children. 5. Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (born September 14, 1941) is an American civil rights activist who was active in the 1960s. She was one of the Freedom Riders who was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi in 1961, and was confined for two months in the Maximum Security Unit of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (known as "Parchman Farm"). [1]
Jeannace June Freeman. Jeannace June Freeman (1941/42 - 2003) was the first woman ever sentenced to death in the U.S. state of Oregon, and remained the only woman sentenced to death in Oregon until 2011. [1] Her conviction was upheld by the Oregon Supreme Court, [2] though she was not in fact executed. She was sentenced to death in 1961, for ...
Native of Natchez, Mississippi, former Confederate officer, died April 3, 1886: Rhesa Hatcher: 1869 Bvt. Lt. Col. Joseph G. Crane: 1869 Union officer appointed as mayor; stabbed to death by Edward M. Yerger, a former Confederate officer Captain F.A. Field: 1869 Union officer appointed as mayor A. Way Kelly: 1869 E.W. Cabaniss: 1869–1870 ...
March 26, 2024 at 12:22 PM. Robert A. Eikhoff has been named as the special agent in charge of the FBI Jackson Field Office in Mississippi by Director Christopher Wray, according to an FBI press ...