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Michelle Byrom, 57, is serving a sentence at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl for the 1999 murder of her husband. Despite serious questions about her guilt, Byrom could be executed soon. She would be the first woman Mississippi has put to death in seven decades.

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An Innocent Woman? Michelle Byrom vs. Mississippi

If Mississippi executes Michelle Byrom, now 57, she will be the first woman the state has put to death in 70 years. It may also be a horrible injustice.

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