Lowndes man sentenced to death may get new trial
A Lowndes County man on death row may go before a trial court that will look at new evidence and determine whether or not the evidence will produce a different result or lead to a different sentence.
Convicted Lowndes murderer could get new trial
Lawyers from the Mississippi Innocence Project asked the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to reexamine the case of Eddie Lee Howard Jr., a Columbus man put on death row in 1992.
Bite-mark expert dismisses own testimony
The expert whose bite-mark evidence convinced a jury to put Eddie Lee Howard Jr. on Mississippi’s death row now believes that such evidence should be tossed, and has felt so for years.