A coroner pronounced him dead at 6.12pm CST at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain addresses media in the Visitation Centre on the grounds of the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. Police surrounded the house and tried to get David Cox to release his wife and the two children. Sally Fran Ross, a retired United Methodist minister, left, holds a protest sign at the prayer vigil at the Mississippi State Penitentiary. Questions remained about whether David Cox was responsible for the 2007 disappearance of his brother's wife, Felicia Cox, who was last seen in a neighbouring county.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 18, 2021 12:32 UTC