Prisons head: Man awaiting execution for killing has remorse
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
Associated Press
PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — The head of Mississippi’s prison system says a man who killed his estranged wife in 2010 appeared calm and expressed remorse ahead of his scheduled execution. David Neal Cox is set to receive a lethal injection Wednesday evening at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. If carried out, it would be Mississippi’s first execution in nine years. Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain said Wednesday the 50-year-old inmate was calm and expressed remorse for what he did. Cox pleaded guilty in 2012 to killing his wife and to sexually assaulting his stepdaughter in front of her dying mother. Cox had given up all appeals in the case.
