For five decades, David Cox was one of the few rock stars in the world of statistics. Dr. Cox, who died Jan. 18 at the age of 97, made numerous contributions to the field but was best known for a 1972 ...

How did they get there?Three dozen men and a woman are on death row in Mississippi. A group that wants to abolish the death penalty, which they describe as state violence, holds a vigil for David Neal ...

Nov. 18—PARCHMAN — For the last three years, David Neal Cox has asked the state officials to execute him by lethal injection for the capital murder of his wife in May 2010. Wednesday evening, the ...

A convicted Mississippi child rapist, who was put to death for the 2010 murder of his wife, confessed to killing his sister-in-law in a separate slaying prior to his execution, officials said this ...

Correction: This story has been updated to show David Neal Cox's execution will be the the state's first since 2012. David Neal Cox is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday for the May 2010 ...