IPFS News Link • Death Penalty
Mississippi Supreme Court orders new trial for Michelle Byrom; AG wants reasons why
• .Four days after Mississippi could have executed Michelle Byrom, the state Supreme Court threw out her conviction and ordered her a new trial....
The ruling to reverse the case came after The Clarion-Ledger and others drew attention to the fact that Byrom’s son, Edward Jr., had repeatedly confessed to killing his father, Edward Sr., but jurors had never heard that evidence....