Edwin Hart Turner Killed by Lethal Injection

The man convicted of murdering two people during a 1995 robbery spree is dead. Edwin Hart Turner died by lethal injection last night at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. MPB's Daniel Cherry witnessed the execution and has this report.

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