Executed

John B. Nixon Senior

77 years old · died December 14, 2005 · Mississippi State Penitentiary, Mississippi

John B. Nixon Senior, 77, was executed by lethal injection at Parchman State Prison in Mississippi on December 14, 2005. According to the reporting, he was the oldest person in the nation to be executed since the death penalty was reinstated almost three decades earlier. His final appeals were denied, including a request for a delay from a U.S. Supreme Court justice, and the Supreme Court declined to take up his case.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Source

State Executes Oldest Death-Row Inmate WLBT, December 14, 2005

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