Mississippi executes convicted killer, its first since 2012

[Dial H For Hero]

Source: Reuters

Nov 17 (Reuters) - A Mississippi man who shot his estranged wife to death and sexually assaulted his stepdaughter during an eight-hour 2010 standoff with police was put to death on Wednesday, local media reported.

David Cox, who in 2018 dismissed his attorneys and dropped his appeals in the case, saying he deserved the death penalty, was the first prisoner executed in Mississippi in nine years.

He was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. central time (0012 GMT Thursday) at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, the Clarion-Ledger newspaper reported.

The condemned man, in his final words said: "I want to tell my children that I love them very, very much and that I was a good man at one time," Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain told the paper.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/mississippi-set-carry-out-states-first-execution-since-2012-2021-11-17/

[OneBro]

1. He was evil.

I am against the death penalty. (Full stop)
I would have sentenced him to solitary confinement in a small cell for life, never to hear music or another human voice, and never to again see the sun, a cloud, tree, book, bird, picture or another human for the rest of his natural life. Cruel and unusual? Of course, but so be it.

[Steelrolled]

7. I don't want to see people like this suffer. Just kill them humanly and be done with it.

I was actually impressed at how he owned up to his deeds. And I'm don't doubt that he once was a good man.

[joshcryer]

9. The daughter he raped wanted him to rot.

He took the easy way out. Fully believing he was going to heaven, etc.

He may have been a good person at one point, but he repeatedly raped his daughter for years, and when she finally told on him, after he got out of jail over the rapes, he raped her one last time while her mother slowly bled to death and was forced to watch. Total psychopath of a human.

On top of that he apparently killed his wifes friend a few years prior and before his execution sent out a letter admitting to it. Those details have not surfaced yet though.

[Steelrolled]

10. I am quite happy for him to take the "easy way out."

What difference does it make? He has been removed from our society, we don't have to think about what he is doing or what will become of him, and that is what is important in my view. I can appreciate that his daughter had a different view.

[marble falls]

2. No death penalty, ever. No cruel or unusual punishments. No life sentences without ...

... possibility of parole.

[American Interregnum]

3. At least it wasn't a Racist Railroading

I don't know Cox's ethnicity, but the article says he admitted his guilt.

[Polybius]

5. White guy

[joshcryer]

8. Apparently raped his daughter while the dying mother watched.

And apparently killed another woman and before he was executed mailed a confession letter admitting to it.

[Mosby]

4. Good riddance.

[Lunabell]

6. Now THIS is how the death penalty should be used.

This type of evil is irredeemable.

[Devil Child]

11. Good n/t

[Raine]

12. Good! 👍 nt