{"id":5012,"date":"2021-11-16T11:10:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T19:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=5012"},"modified":"2021-11-18T09:37:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T17:37:13","slug":"mississippi-murder-to-be-executed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=5012","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Murderer to be Executed"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Mississippi man who murdered his estranged wife in 2009, after several years of sexually abusing her daughter, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday (11\/17).\u00a0 Emily Wagster Pettus of the Associated Press reports<\/a> that David Neal Cox was jailed in 2009 after his stepdaughter reported that he had been sexually assaulting her for years.\u00a0 Even though Cox had been convicted of rape, sexual battery, child abuse and a drug charge, he was released from jail in April of 2010.\u00a0 A month later Cox stormed into the house where his estranged wife, Kim Cox, was living and shot her in the arm and abdomen.\u00a0 While she lay on the floor bleeding to death, Cox sexually assaulted her daughter in front of her.\u00a0 After an eight-hour standoff, Cox surrendered to police.\u00a0 He pled guilty to the murder in 2012.\u00a0 UPDATE<\/strong>:\u00a0 Cox was executed Wednesday afternoon as reported here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Mississippi man who murdered his estranged wife in 2009, after several years of sexually abusing her daughter, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday (11\/17).\u00a0 Emily Wagster Pettus of the Associated Press reports that David Neal Cox was jailed in 2009 after his stepdaughter reported that he had been sexually assaulting her for years.\u00a0 Even though Cox had been convicted of rape, sexual battery, child abuse and a drug charge, he was released from jail in April of 2010.\u00a0 A month later Cox stormed into the house where his estranged wife, Kim Cox, was living and shot her in the arm and abdomen.\u00a0 While she lay on the floor bleeding to death, Cox sexually assaulted her daughter in front of her.\u00a0 After an eight-hour standoff, Cox surrendered to police.\u00a0 He pled guilty to the murder in 2012.\u00a0 UPDATE:\u00a0 Cox was executed Wednesday afternoon as reported here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-penalty"],"yoast_head":"\nMississippi Murderer to be Executed - Crime & Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=5012\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mississippi Murderer to be Executed - Crime & Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Mississippi man who murdered his estranged wife in 2009, after several years of sexually abusing her daughter, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday (11\/17).\u00a0 Emily Wagster Pettus of the Associated Press reports that David Neal Cox was jailed in 2009 after his stepdaughter reported that he had been sexually assaulting her for years.\u00a0 Even though Cox had been convicted of rape, sexual battery, child abuse and a drug charge, he was released from jail in April of 2010.\u00a0 A month later Cox stormed into the house where his estranged wife, Kim Cox, was living and shot her in the arm and abdomen.\u00a0 While she lay on the floor bleeding to death, Cox sexually assaulted her daughter in front of her.\u00a0 After an eight-hour standoff, Cox surrendered to police.\u00a0 He pled guilty to the murder in 2012.\u00a0 UPDATE:\u00a0 Cox was executed Wednesday afternoon as reported here.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=5012\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Crime & Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CriminalJusticeLegalFoundation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-11-16T19:10:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-11-18T17:37:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FB_DefaultLJ.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Rushford\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Michael Rushford\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=5012\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=5012\",\"name\":\"Mississippi Murderer to be Executed - Crime & Consequences\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-16T19:10:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-18T17:37:13+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/#\/schema\/person\/818db0b54694df828fde443a64c42758\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=5012#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=5012\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=5012#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Mississippi Murderer to be Executed\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/\",\"name\":\"Crime & Consequences\",\"description\":\"Crime and criminal law\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/#\/schema\/person\/818db0b54694df828fde443a64c42758\",\"name\":\"Michael Rushford\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.cjlf.org\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?author=3\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Mississippi Murderer to be Executed - Crime & Consequences","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=5012","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Mississippi Murderer to be Executed - Crime & Consequences","og_description":"A Mississippi man who murdered his estranged wife in 2009, after several years of sexually abusing her daughter, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday (11\/17).\u00a0 Emily Wagster Pettus of the Associated Press reports that David Neal Cox was jailed in 2009 after his stepdaughter reported that he had been sexually assaulting her for years.\u00a0 Even though Cox had been convicted of rape, sexual battery, child abuse and a drug charge, he was released from jail in April of 2010.\u00a0 A month later Cox stormed into the house where his estranged wife, Kim Cox, was living and shot her in the arm and abdomen.\u00a0 While she lay on the floor bleeding to death, Cox sexually assaulted her daughter in front of her.\u00a0 After an eight-hour standoff, Cox surrendered to police.\u00a0 He pled guilty to the murder in 2012.\u00a0 UPDATE:\u00a0 Cox was executed Wednesday afternoon as reported here.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=5012","og_site_name":"Crime & Consequences","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CriminalJusticeLegalFoundation\/","article_published_time":"2021-11-16T19:10:43+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-11-18T17:37:13+00:00","og_image":[{"width":300,"height":400,"url":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FB_DefaultLJ.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Michael Rushford","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Michael Rushford","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=5012","url":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=5012","name":"Mississippi Murderer to be Executed - Crime & Consequences","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2021-11-16T19:10:43+00:00","dateModified":"2021-11-18T17:37:13+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/#\/schema\/person\/818db0b54694df828fde443a64c42758"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=5012#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=5012"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=5012#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Mississippi Murderer to be Executed"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/","name":"Crime & Consequences","description":"Crime and criminal law","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/#\/schema\/person\/818db0b54694df828fde443a64c42758","name":"Michael Rushford","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.cjlf.org"],"url":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?author=3"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5012"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5076,"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012\/revisions\/5076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}