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Culture  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
August 18, 2021

SALTER: Like the rest of the nation, state’s Death Row population declines the last 20 years

By: Sid Salter Mississippi hasn’t executed a Death Row inmate since former grocery store butcher Gary Carl Simmons Jr. was executed on June 20, 2012, for the grisly 1996 murder and dismemberment of Jeffrey Wolfe and the subsequent kidnapping and rape of Wolfe’s girlfriend in Pascagoula. At that time, there were 53 inmates on Mississippi’s…
Culture  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
August 17, 2021

UMMC officials join with others to discuss new field hospital for adults at Jackson campus

On Tuesday, leaders from the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Samaritan’s Purse, the Mississippi Department of Health as well as the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency discussed the opening of a field hospital for adult patients inside the parking garage adjacent to the Kathy and Joe Sanderson Tower at Children’s of Mississippi in Jackson.