Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear how proposed industrialization projects could harm people in the Lower Ninth Ward. We ...

Nevin Whetstone is serving a life sentence for capital murder committed in Lee County. He remains on the loose from prison.

South Carolina became the first state since 2010 to execute an inmate by firing squad. Is the method legal in Mississippi?

Convicted murdered Nevin Whetstone, who escaped from the Mississippi State Penitentiary was captured in Sunflower County on March 7, with the help of local, state and federal authorities. Whetstone, ...

Nevin Whetstone, 71, escaped from the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. Whetstone was convicted of capital murder in Lee County in 1984 and sentenced to life in prison. Whetstone pleaded ...

PARCHMAN – A Tupelo man, serving a life sentence for the 1983 murder and rape of a Fulton woman, escaped from the Mississippi State Penitentiary Tuesday morning. This is the second time he has ...

PARCHMAN – After three days on the run, a 71-year-old escapee from the Mississippi State Penitentiary was captured Friday afternoon just west of Parchman. Nevin Kerr Whetstone, 71, formerly of ...

Officials said that Nevin Kerr Whetstone, 71, escaped Tuesday morning from a housing unit at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Sunflower County. He is believed to have been wearing green and ...

Nevin Whetstone, who is serving life for the 1983 murder of Loretta Darlene Steele in Lee County, escaped from the Mississippi State Penitentiary sometime earlier in the week. Mississippi Today ...

Before lethal injection, MDOC used the gas chamber for executions starting in 1954 when the chamber was installed in the Mississippi State Penitentiary. A total of 35 male inmates — 27 Black and ...