Posted on 11/18/2021 6:02:09 AM PST by Red Badger
A Mississippi man became the state's first execution in nearly 10 years on Wednesday after he was convicted of killing his wife and sexually assaulting his stepdaughter while her mother was forced to watch as she was dying.
David Neal Cox, 50, pleaded guilty to capital murder in 2012 and pleaded guilty to other charges including sexual assault. The crime was committed in 2010 when he shot and killed his estranged wife Kim Cox. His stepdaughter Lindsey Kirk, now 23, was present at his execution. "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 his death, according to the Associated Press . "Don't ever read anything but the King James Bible."
Kirk told the Associated Press that she had been assaulted by Cox for several years when her mother was out of the house, and Cox threatened to kill her if she told anyone.
Kirk eventually told her mother about the assault in 2009. Cox was arrested and charged with statutory rape, sexual battery, child abuse, and possession of methamphetamine. However, he was released without standing trial in 2010, a month before the murder.
Cox held his wife, stepdaughter, and one of his stepsons hostage for eight hours on the night of May 14 into the next day in Sherman, Mississippi . Cox shot his wife and then sexually assaulted Kirk three times while her mother was dying. By the time police arrived and got inside, Kim Cox had died.
Burl Cain, the state corrections commissioner, told the Associated Press the execution had gone "picture perfect."
Cain also confirmed the use of three drugs for the execution: midazolam, a sedative, vecuronium bromide, which paralyzes the muscles, and potassium chloride, which stops the heart. The drugs are hard to obtain due to pharmaceutical companies frequently blocking their use for executions .
Mississippi currently has 30 inmates on death row, though no other execution has been scheduled.
I like it!
Those drugs are vital to hospital use. So it shouldn’t be hard to get them.
Oh...the distributors of the drugs really care what happens witb the drugs after being sold?
Great. Just include them in a lawsuit anytime there is any adverse reaction which causes harm ( including death) to a patient. They will cry for indemnity.
For 10 years the taxpayers of Mississippi financed this ghoul’s existence. Ridiculous.
For supply help see the pusher on the corner near any big city high school.
Justice delayed...
I hope I don’t get flamed too much, but here goes.
He pled guilty and did not personally start any appeals and denied an appeal at the end. That is why it only took nine years.
I think he actually got saved in prison (KJV is used by most prison ministries), he knew and acknowledged that he had committed an evil act, and took his punishment. There are so many others who do fake conversions in prison and use them to start appeals to try and say they are good now and don’t deserve the death penalty.
Thanks, judicial system
And, there were loud media-covered protests by the Hollywood crowd, sports celebrities, Kardashians and other assorted anti-death-penalty activists, right?
Guess not cuz he was the wrong color.
"Absolute immunity" is what Mr Wint ("DogMitt" Binger) and Mr Kidd ("Handbrake" Kraus) have from their malicious Antifa vendetta against Kyle Rittenhouse.
And another thing. Why should these creatures get a pleasant death? The drugs they are using induce euphoria before unconsciousness. The medieval "inhumane" methods of execution: burning, drawing and quartering, even slow flaying would be more appropriate punishment for the crimes they have committed. And they would make other potential criminals think twice.
Our modern world has so much wrong.
She’s 23 now, which means she was about 11 in 2009 when it came out, and he had been molesting her for “several years” at that point.
I hope she gets some measure of healing from this....................
Agreed
"Mississippi man becomes state's first death row execution in nearly 10 years"
We obviously need to pick up the pace.
Whatever happened to the good old days, when there was a gallows out behind the courthouse? Four ropes, no waiting.
Don’t know about the high, but the manner of death is asphyxiation. The heart keeps beating but the autonomic reflex of opening and closing your diaphragm is stopped by fentanyl attaching to receptors in the brain. In other words you forget to breathe. Then the heart stops.
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