At 6 p.m. today, death row inmate Paul Everette Woodward is scheduled to be escorted to the execution room at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, where he will be injected with a lethal cocktail of sodium pentothal, normal saline, pavulon and potassium chloride.
Woodward of Monticello would become the seventh death row inmate in Mississippi to be killed by lethal injection and the first since Dale L. Bishop in 2008. There are currently 61 inmates on death row in Mississippi.
Around that time, the bells of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Hattiesburg will ring the death toll, part of a prayer vigil held by members of the church’s social justice ministry. The church held one for Bishop that numbered 30 people in attendance.
Hattiesburg American
5/18/10
