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~ David Cox, 17Nov21, (MS) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: October 28, 2021, 9:15 pm
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Mississippi prepares for David Neal Cox’s execution, the state’s
1st since 2012--
October 23rd, 2021
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Mississippi prison employees will conduct once-a-week rehearsals
as the state prepares for its first execution since 2012,
Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain says.
Cain told The Associated Press on Friday that the rehearsals for
a lethal injection are usually done once a month at the
Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, following a protocol
that’s about 20 pages long.
“Very, very detailed,” Cain said.
The Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday set a Nov. 17
execution date for David Neal Cox, who pleaded guilty in 2012 to
killing his wife, Kim, in 2010 in the northern Mississippi town
of Shannon. Cox withdrew his appeals and once filed court papers
calling himself “worthy of death.” Mississippi has not had an
execution since 2012, and it had six that year.
Cain confirmed Mississippi has obtained lethal injection drugs,
but he declined to say how.
“I’m not supposed to talk about the drugs too much,” Cain said.
According to court papers, Cox shot his wife twice and then
sexually assaulted his stepdaughter in front of a dying Kim Cox
while police negotiators and relatives pleaded for her life.
David Cox pleaded guilty to sexual battery, kidnapping and other
crimes without making a bargain with prosecutors that precluded
the death penalty. A jury sentenced him to death.
Union County Circuit Court Judge Kent Smith ruled in April that
Cox, 50, was mentally competent to waive his appeals. The
Mississippi Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel appealed
Smith’s ruling. Justices on Thursday affirmed Smith’s decision
and denied the appeal by the Office of Capital Post-Conviction
Counsel.
Cox wrote to the chief justice of Mississippi Supreme Court in
August 2018 saying he wanted to fire his lawyers, relinquish all
appeals and get an execution date.
In the ruling Thursday, justices wrote that in November 2018,
Cox filed court papers saying “I am worthy of death.”
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Re: ~ David Cox, 17Nov21, (MS) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: November 17, 2021, 12:08 am
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‘He’s evil’: Victims’ family prepares for killer’s execution--
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
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Lindsey Kirk looks at childhood photographs of herself and her
late mother Kim Kirk Cox, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021, in New
Albany, Miss. She was 12 years old when her stepfather, David
Neal Cox, terrorized her family, sexually assaulted her, and
killed her mother, Kim Kirk Cox, in May 2010 at a home in
Sherman, Miss. The Mississippi Supreme Court set an execution
date of Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, for Cox after he said he
wanted to surrender all appeals.
NEW ALBANY, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi woman is scheduled to be
a witness when her stepfather is executed this week.
David Neal Cox is set to die by lethal injection Wednesday for
the 2010 killing of his wife, Kim Kirk Cox.
He also pleaded guilty to other crimes, including sexually
assaulting his then 12-year-old stepdaughter in front of her
dying mother.
The stepdaughter, Lindsey Cox, is now 23 years old.
She tells The Associated Press that she had long wanted David
Cox to sit in prison. She says that now, she is OK with the
execution.
This will be Mississippi’s first execution since 2012.
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Re: ~ David Cox, 17Nov21, (MS) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: November 17, 2021, 9:02 pm
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Pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. | David Neal Cox first person
executed in Mississippi since 2012--
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - David Neal Cox, 50, was the first person
executed in Mississippi since 2012.
Cox was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. at the State Penitentiary
at Parchman.
WLBT’s Josh Carter witnessed the execution. He wrote down Cox’s
last words: “I want my children to know that I love them very
much and I was a good man at one time. And don’t ever read
anything but the King James Bible, and I wanna thank the
Commissioner for being so kind to me. And that’s all I got to
say.”
Cox’s attorneys stated in a press release that he wanted them to
speak for him after his death about the “inhumane prison
conditions at Parchman” and why the “horrible living conditions
made (his) decision to give up (his) appeals very easy.”
Meanwhile, a new mystery has arisen, with Mississippi
Commissioner Burl Cain saying Cox “told me one time, only this,
that he had left a letter with someone to mail after he was
dead. Who knows what, when, or where. If it appears, it does, if
it (doesn’t) he didn’t.”
Cain provided multiple updates on the execution of David Cox
Wednesday, discussing everything from Cox’s last meal to his
demeanor with only hours to live.
“He wanted to know about the different wires and lines... and
that was great,” he said, referring to the injection equipment.
“I think the people were really good. They didn’t hurt him, and,
so, that was good. It was all good. It was really a smooth
process. You couldn’t make it more picture-perfect than we had
tonight.”
Speaking earlier in the day, Cain said MDOC officials met with
Cox Sunday to discuss the procedure, answer questions and
determine Cox’s last meal - banana pudding, French fries,
catfish, and hushpuppies.
He and corrections officials shared the meal shortly before the
4:45 press conference. “Other than that, the hour before, he
visited with his attorneys and so forth, to hang out and have
visits and just wait,” Cain said. “He was OK and ready to go.”
MDOC and Parchman officials began making preparations for the
execution days ago.
“Well, he moved over to Unit 17 on Sunday evening, late and that
was when it was scheduled. Prior to that, we came up and met
with him... and spent some time with him to talk about what was
going to happen, how it was going to happen, and what the
process is and to find out what he wanted for his last meal and
that sort of thing.”
“And so we probably spent 45 minutes with him at least, and he
asked a lot of questions. He was upbeat and it was cool,” he
said.
Cain would not offer details about the drugs being used in the
execution, saying that state law does not require him to do so.
“Our law provides that we don’t have to disclose any of that, so
we follow the law,” he said.
“Everything is meticulously planned and on schedule, and I have
no reason not to believe that the execution won’t take place at
6 p.m.,” he said and pointed to the fact that the 2 p.m. press
conference Wednesday was held on time.
A hearse was already at the prison to pick up Cox’s remains.
Cain did not know where Cox’s body would be taken, except to say
a funeral home.
Cox was convicted in 2010 of killing his estranged wife and
kidnapping his two children.
The decision to move forward with his execution was granted by
the Mississippi Supreme Court in October after Cox asked the
court to dismiss all his appeals.
Cain says Cox showed remorse and reported Cox saying the
execution will bring closure to the victims of his crime.
“Closure to his sons for taking their mom,” he said. “He has
been remorseful and that’s a good thing.”
“It’s obvious, you know, he made a lot of bad decisions, and I
think he qualified it best when he said, ‘I wasn’t always that
bad.’”
There was a spiritual advisor and two witnesses present when Cox
died.
Cox was adamant that he was ready to accept his fate. In a
hand-written letter to the Supreme Court on October 27, he told
justices that his attorneys were going to file an appeal of his
sentence to the U.S. Supreme Court without his consent.
The court had dismissed Cox’s attorneys but left them in place
in a solely advisory capacity. He told justices his attorneys
were also going to file suit against the method of his
execution.
“I told all of the post-conviction counsels that if they try and
file any further filings on my behalf, I’ll do my (damndest) to
have them all disbarred,” he wrote. “They told me they do not
have to do what I say.”
We reached out to Krissy Nobile, one of Cox’s attorneys and
director of the Mississippi Office of Capital Post-Conviction
Counsel, and said that a statement would be emailed at the
appropriate time.
The execution is the first in the state since 2012.
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Re: ~ David Cox, 17Nov21, (MS) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: December 13, 2021, 2:05 pm
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Remains found after death row inmate admitted to another murder
just before his execution--
Monday, December 13, 2021
PONTOTOC, Miss. - Authorities have uncovered the remains of a
Mississippi woman following a tip from an inmate who revealed
the location of her body prior to his execution on other crimes
last month.
On Sunday, police discovered what's believed to be the body of
Felicia Cox on land that had once belonged to her family in
Pontotoc County. The remains will be taken to the state crime
lab for an autopsy and DNA testing to confirm identity,
according to Pontotoc County Coroner Kim Bedford.
Last month, David Neal Cox became the first inmate executed in
Mississippi in nine years.
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