In 2016 there were 91,115 crimes reported in the
U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sove ...
of
Mississippi
Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...
, including 238 murders. In 2017–2018 the violent crime rate dropped 8%.
Cities
The city listed in Mississippi as the safest is
Madison Madison may refer to:
People
* Madison (name), a given name and a surname
* James Madison (1751–1836), fourth president of the United States
Place names
* Madison, Wisconsin, the state capital of Wisconsin and the largest city known by this ...
. As of 2018 there were only 18 violent crimes. The most violent city in Mississippi is Jackson, Mississippi as of in 2020.
Capital punishment laws
Capital punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that ...
is applied in this state.
One of the two death sentences of
Willie Jerome Manning (for two unrelated double murders) attracted national attention in May 2013 when the
FBI rescinded an evidence report days before Manning's scheduled execution.
References
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