Hood, Epps Hope for Speedier Executions -- Cite Benefits: Closure for Victims' Kin, State Saves

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PARCHMAN - Atty. Gen. Jim Hood and Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps are of a single mind: more executions are better for Mississippi.

Hood told reporters after Wednesday's execution of Earl Wesley Berry that Mississippi could execute three more death row inmates by the end of 2008.

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Hood, Epps Hope for Speedier Executions -- Cite Benefits: Closure for Victims' Kin, State Saves

Department of Corrections officials privately said they expect another execution could come before the end of summer.

Any execution, Epps insists, would be of dual importance - lifting an emotional burden off the families of the v...

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