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David Neal Cox

50 years old · died November 17, 2021 · Mississippi State Penitentiary, Sunflower County, Mississippi

David Cox, 50, was executed by lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman on November 17, 2021, a sentence carried out by the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Before the injection began, he said he wanted his children to know that he loved them very much, and he asked to be remembered as a good man. According to the coroner, he was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Mississippi Department of Corrections (the agency that held him); the county coroner.

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