"This feels like a sick dream," former WNBA player Tamera Young wrote in tribute to her late friend Sharell Canty ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of Ireland’s premier tenors, Paul Byrom, will perform at The Lyric Theater on Friday, March 7, as part of his “Isle of Hope” ...

State supreme court reverses Byrom's 2000 conviction for capital murder and ordered court to assign new judge to case The Mississippi state supreme court has ordered a new trial for death row inmate ...

Michelle Byrom will not be executed today, as was requested by Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood because the state Supreme Court has not yet issued a decision on the request. Michelle Byrom Will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Death row inmate Michelle Byrom, 57, is seen in a Mississippi Department of Corrections photo taken January 11, 2011.

JACKSON, Miss. - A death row inmate who prosecutors say recruited her son in a plot to kill her husband will get a new trial, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled Monday in a rare order for a prisoner ...

UPDATE: On March 31, Michelle Byrom's conviction was vacated. She won a new trial, which will be assigned to a different judge. The Byrom family tragedy in Mississippi is a one-act play, with four ...

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JACKSON, Miss. - Michelle Byrom, a Mississippi woman scheduled to be executed Thursday was granted a brief reprieve, reports Reuters. She was to become the first female prisoner executed in ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court has denied the state attorney general’s motion to set an execution date for Michelle Byrom, according to an order filed by the court Thursday afternoon. “Having duly ...