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Prison Officials Say Nixon Calm as Execution Approaches
The Jackson Channel ^ | 12/14/05

Posted on 12/14/2005 3:58:14 PM PST by onyx

Prison Officials Say Nixon Calm As Execution Approaches

POSTED: 7:20 am CST December 14, 2005 UPDATED: 5:10 pm CST December 14, 2005

PARCHMAN, Miss. -- Convicted hitman John B. Nixon, Sr., spent the final hours before his scheduled execution Wednesday visiting with relatives, and prison officials described him as calm and tranquil.

The 77-year-old man ate a breakfast of two eggs, two sausage patties, two pieces of white bread, coffee and milk. Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps said Nixon declined to eat lunch, saving room for a last meal.

The execution -- Mississippi's first since 2002 -- was set for 6 p.m. at the state penitentiary at archman.

Nixon would become the oldest person in the nation to be executed since the death penalty was reinstated nearly three decades ago.

He has spent nearly 20 years on death row for the 1985 murder of 45-year-old Virginia Tucker of Brandon.

The U.S. Supreme Court denied Nixon's request for a reprieve just hours before the scheduled execution.

The High Court had been the last hope for the former auto mechanic after Gov. Haley Barbour denied clemency.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: deathrow; execution; johnnixon
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To: dixiechick2000

No excuses today.

I know things move slowly in the South, but, lol... I will have to wait for the 10PM news to hear about the execution... NOT a word about it before they signed off at the bottom of the hour, which was a full 29 minutes after he was scheduled for the needle.


41 posted on 12/14/2005 4:33:13 PM PST by onyx ((Vicksburg, MS) North is a direction. South is a way of life.)
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To: Politicalities
he's not getting much media attention. I wonder why...

He's a white guy. Nobody cares.

42 posted on 12/14/2005 4:33:57 PM PST by Alouette (Learned Mother of Zion)
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To: onyx

I hope he made some peace with God.


43 posted on 12/14/2005 4:34:02 PM PST by cyborg
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To: onyx

LOL!

Such is the South. ;o)


44 posted on 12/14/2005 4:34:55 PM PST by dixiechick2000
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To: onyx

asparagus spears

Is that Britanys little brother?


45 posted on 12/14/2005 4:35:56 PM PST by al baby (Father of the beeber)
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To: Casloy
Another report said he asked one of the guards for a cigarette, but they declined to give him one, and told him it was bad for his health.
46 posted on 12/14/2005 4:36:06 PM PST by Jigsaw John
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To: cyborg


I think he did. His apology rang sincere to me.


47 posted on 12/14/2005 4:36:24 PM PST by onyx ((Vicksburg, MS) North is a direction. South is a way of life.)
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To: al baby


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


48 posted on 12/14/2005 4:36:47 PM PST by onyx ((Vicksburg, MS) North is a direction. South is a way of life.)
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To: mwyounce

Not one Nobel nomination.


49 posted on 12/14/2005 4:37:44 PM PST by billhilly (Demo cammo is yellow and white)
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To: onyx

Did the husband receive the same punishment?


50 posted on 12/14/2005 4:37:44 PM PST by kenth (Come back here... so that I may brain thee!)
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To: onyx
That's OK - I just got the facts from the Wikipedia post myself. What I wonder about is the fascination with the last meal these reprobates eat, right down to coffee, number of slices of toast, etc.. Morbid and really not an addition to the story or lesson of the event.
51 posted on 12/14/2005 4:39:50 PM PST by TCats
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To: onyx

He'll be even calmer after its over.


52 posted on 12/14/2005 4:39:51 PM PST by Frenetic
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To: kenth


No, no, no --- the EX-husband hired Nixon --- that guy is prison --- he got a LIFE sentence.


53 posted on 12/14/2005 4:41:40 PM PST by onyx ((Vicksburg, MS) North is a direction. South is a way of life.)
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To: kenth

"Did the husband receive the same punishment?"

The article didn't say how long he was married.


54 posted on 12/14/2005 4:42:03 PM PST by billhilly (Demo cammo is yellow and white)
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To: TCats


There is still NO news --- not even a scroll acoss the bottom of the local channels.

Oh well, details at 10PM.


55 posted on 12/14/2005 4:44:57 PM PST by onyx ((Vicksburg, MS) North is a direction. South is a way of life.)
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To: billhilly

ah hahahaha...


56 posted on 12/14/2005 4:58:30 PM PST by kenth (Come back here... so that I may brain thee!)
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To: onyx
Per WLOX.com {abc channel 13 Gulf Port/Biloxi, Ms}

Convicted Hitman Nixon Executed For 1985 Murder

57 posted on 12/14/2005 5:04:17 PM PST by I Drive Too Fast
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To: I Drive Too Fast

Was that the case involving the mayor of Gulfport?


58 posted on 12/14/2005 5:09:09 PM PST by billhilly (Demo cammo is yellow and white)
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To: onyx

I guess if President Ford hadn't been in the hospital yesterday he could have forgiven him...:)


59 posted on 12/14/2005 5:10:30 PM PST by joey'smom
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To: I Drive Too Fast


Any details... like how long it took, trouble finding a vein, number of witnesses?


60 posted on 12/14/2005 5:10:41 PM PST by onyx ((Vicksburg, MS) North is a direction. South is a way of life.)
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