Michelle byrom murderer release
Michelle byrom murderer release
Michelle byrom murderer release update.
On Death Row for a Murder Her Son Admitted To, Michelle Byrom Will Finally Get a New Trial
After about a decade and a half in prison for a crime she may not have committed, Mississippi death row inmate Michelle Byrom, 56, will have another chance in court.
On Monday, the Mississippi Supreme Court unanimously reversed Byrom's capital muder conviction and ordered a new trial with a new judge take place.
Byrom was convicted of murder in 2000 after her son, Edward Byrom Jr., testified in court that she'd hired a hit man to kill her husband (and his dad), Edward Sr.
The judge, Thomas Gardner, sentenced Michelle to death.
But ample mitigating evidence—including years of verbal, physical, and sexual abuse at the hands of Edward Sr.—was never admitted into the courtroom. Neither was the repeated confessing from Edward Jr.
to killing his father himself.
From the Jackson Free Press:
Edward Byrom Jr. confessed to murdering his father, Edward Byrom Sr., on June 4, 1999, in a le