In Legal Terms, the show about you and your rights hosted by attorney Adam Kilgore. legalterms@mbponline.org

Mississippi has scheduled an execution for tomorrow, June 24th. Who is it? How to they propose to do it? What are the options for the prisoner to stop it? We’ll learn with our guests: Krissy C. Nobile, Director of The Mississippi Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel, Beth Windham, an attorney with CPCC, and attorney David Voisin.

According to the MS Department of Corrections: Since Mississippi joined the Union in 1817, several forms of execution have been used. Hanging was the first form of execution used until 1940. Then the electric chair was used until 1952. In 1954, the gas chamber was installed at the Mississippi State Penitentiary and used until 1989. After that lethal injection was used.

How many ways can a person be executed in Mississippi? During the 2017 regular session of the Mississippi Legislature, lawmakers amended the law to allow death sentences to be carried out by lethal injection, nitrogen hypoxia, electrocution, or firing squad.

The recent municipal elections have shown every vote counts. Are you ready for Augusts special primary? Folks in the Hernando/Southaven/Olive Branch area, folks in the Starkville/Columbus area, and folks in the Hattiesburg area have a Special election primary coming up. But good news! There’s time to get registered to vote so you can participate in electing the folks that make our laws.

You can register to vote at your Circuit Clerk’s office, your Municipal Clerk’s office, when you get your driver’s license at the Department of Public Safety, or through the mail by downloading a voter registration form from the Secretary of State’s website and mailing it to your Circuit Clerk.

Today, we've got three Legal Terms on In Legal Terms: Clemency, Commutation, and Reprieve.

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In Legal Terms, the show about you and your rights hosted by attorney Adam Kilgore. legalterms@mbponline.org

Are you a part of a Board of Directors? Do you have a Board that is involved in your life at work, home, or at a volunteer group? Board governance: how does it work? How is it SUPPOSED to work? We’ll learn about this with our guest: Professor Martin Edwards from the University of Mississippi School of Law.

Many charities have boards of directors. If you’re curious about board responsibilities, you might be curious about charities. The MS Secretary of State’s Charities Division is responsible for the registration and regulation of all charitable organizations and fund-raisers who solicit contributions in Mississippi. The division is also responsible for the investigation of charity complaints and/or violations to the State’s charitable laws.

It’s Legal Terms on In Legal Terms: today we’ve got fiduciary.

If you’re interested in the role of board members you may be interested in Parliamentary Procedure. We did a show about that on August 24th of 2024.

I have fallen down the election rabbit hole. There’s another round of elections going on that you might need to know about!

• July 7th is the Voter Registration Deadline to vote in the
• Special Primary Election on August 5th, for the
• General election on November 4, 2025.

Who’s involved?

House Districts 16 and 22 – Chickasaw County; 36, 39 and 41 - Clay County, the Aberdeen area, and Columbus.

Senate Districts 1 - Hernando, 2 - Southaven, 11 - Tunica, 19 - Olive Branch. Also districts 34 - part of Hattiesburg, 41 - Columbia, 42 – more of Hattiesburg, 44 - Purvis, and 45 – Camp Shelby.

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We’ve got a show today unlike any other. Our guest, attorney and former deputy sheriff, Francis Springer and our host, Adam Kilgore, are having an “Ask Us Anything” show.

• Follow up on getting a birth certificate.
• Traffic stop
• Co-signing
• Contingency cases
• Open Meetings

Today’s Legal Term on In Legal Terms: The Posse Commitatus Act

We’ve got some news you’ll want to know if you drive OUTSIDE of the state of Mississippi. In 30 states, including Alabama and Tennessee, as of June 5, 2025 a new law takes effect to ban all handheld device use while driving. This includes calls, emails, texts, or using the internet. Devices cannot be accessed even at a stop light or traffic jam. It’s called the Touch Law.

What a wild election process last week – and it is still not over!

• Municipal Clerks’ Offices must be in actual receipt by 5pm today of absentee ballots returned by mail for ballots to be timely. Ballots returned by mail must be postmarked on or before Election Day.
• Today also: Last day voters who cast an affidavit ballot by reason of voter photo ID may present an acceptable form of photo ID or complete an affidavit of religious objection in the Municipal Clerks’ Offices.
• Friday the13th Municipal Election Commissioners shall certify the General Election Results and forward certified results to the MSOS.

By state statute, whenever a race is tied, it shall be decided by a coin toss or a drawing of straws. And toss a coin is what a Rankin County Justice Court Judge had to do when the Pelahatchie Alderman’s ward one race was a tie at 34 votes each.

Our lawmakers passed a budget for the state. Would you like to know more? The MPB News broadcast: @ISSUE had one last show on Friday about the Special Session. You can now listen to the podcast or watch the show on Mississippi Public Broadcasting’s YouTube Channel.

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