Nobile, said Tuesday that after “considerable and difficult deliberation, and out of respect for David Cox’s autonomy and stated desire,” the office did not plan any more appeals for him. After the state Supreme Court set his execution date, Cox sent a handwritten statement strongly objecting to their continued involvement. Tate Reeves to block the execution of Cox, but Reeves’ spokeswoman said the governor declined to intervene because Cox admitted to ”horrific crimes.”Īttorneys from the Mississippi Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel represented Cox in recent years. “You couldn’t make it more picture perfect than we had tonight,” Cain told reporters afterward.Ī group that opposes executions, Death Penalty Action, said earlier that killing an inmate who surrendered all appeals would amount to “state-sponsored suicide.” The group had petitionedRepublican Gov. He would not say where the department obtained them.Ĭain, the onetime head of the Louisiana state penitentiary in Angola, witnessed several executions in that neighboring state before he took up his new role in Mississippi. The Mississippi Department of Corrections revealed in court papers earlier this year that it had acquired three drugs for the lethal injection protocol: midazolam, which is a sedative vecuronium bromide, which paralyzes the muscles and potassium chloride, which stops the heart.Ĭain told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the drugs listed in the court records were the ones being used for the execution. States have had difficulty finding lethal injection drugs because pharmaceutical companies began blocking the use of their products to carry out death sentences. The state does not have any others scheduled among the more than 30 people currently on its death row. Mississippi carried out six executions in 2012. She was 12 when he sexually assaulted her three times in front of her wounded mother as he held them and one of her younger brothers hostage on the night of May 14 and May 15, 2010, in the small town of Sherman. He was pronounced dead within a few minutes.Īmong those who witnessed the execution was Cox’s now 23-year-old stepdaughter. And that’s all I got to say.”Ĭox appeared to take several deep breaths after the lethal chemicals started flowing through a clear plastic tube into his body, and his mouth moved some. “Don’t ever read anything but the King James Bible.”Ĭox thanked the state corrections commissioner, Burl Cain, for “being very kind to me. “I want my children to know that I love them very much and that I was a good man at one time,” Cox said just before the injection started. Wide leather straps held him down on a gurney. A jury handed down the death sentence.Ĭox wore a red prison jumpsuit and was covered by a white sheet during the execution. He also pleaded guilty to multiple other charges, including sexual assault. CST at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.Ĭox pleaded guilty in 2012 to capital murder for the May 2010 shooting death of his estranged wife, Kim Kirk Cox. A coroner pronounced him dead at 6:12 p.m. He appeared calm as he received a lethal injection.
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(AP) - A man who pleaded guilty to killing his estranged wife and sexually assaulting her young daughter as her mother lay dying was put to death Wednesday evening, becoming the first inmate executed in Mississippi in nine years.ĭavid Neal Cox, 50, abandoned all appeals and filed court papers calling himself “worthy of death” before the state Supreme Court set his execution date.