USA (Mississippi): Further information on Death penalty/Legal concern: Dale Leo Bishop (m)

Index Number: AMR 51/083/2008
Date Published: 24 July 2008
Categories: USA

Dale Bishop was executed in Mississippi shortly after 6pm on 23 July 2008. He had been sentenced to death in February 2000 for the murder of Marcus Gentry in December 1998. The man who actually killed Marcus Gentry is serving a life sentence. The courts rejected Bishop’s final appeals, including challenges to the state’s lethal injection procedures.