Quitman County is in the Delta, in the NW corner of MS. I couldn't find any archived news reports except for this article off of law.com
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Quitman County, Miss., is the kind of quiet rural community that recalls a bygone era in American life. Thomas "Butch" Scipper, the county administrator, likes to think of it as a real-life Mayberry, a place where the screen doors stay unlocked at night. "My keys are outside in my truck ignition right now," Scipper told me one day from his office.
So it came as a particularly horrible shock when, on Feb. 3, 1990, residents awoke to news of a quadruple homicide just outside the small town of Walnut in the southwestern corner of the county, about 70 miles south of Memphis. Carl and Bobbie Jo Parker and their two young children had been returning home from a Bible study class when they walked in on a pair of burglars. According to police investigators, the family was bound, shot and left to die in their burning home.
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I never heard all of the details (I was 8 years old at the time) but they were apparantly gruesome beyond comprehension. The few bits I heard was that they severed Carl Parkers finger to get his wedding ring while he still alive, and forced him to watch them sodomize his young daughter while he was bound. He apparantly almost severed his hands struggling against the electical cord they tied him up with.
You know, that does sound familiar. I think I have some memory of that. That is beyond understanding. To think that they would even ask for clemency is beyond me. Thanks for the article.