Mississippi State Penitentiary

Mississippi’s Parchman prison, where the state houses death-row prisoners in Unit 17 and carries out executions.

Role in the death-penalty system

Mississippi states that all executions are carried out at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.

As of 2026, death-row prisoners are housed in renovated Unit 17, which also contains the execution chamber.

The prison’s execution history includes the 1983 gas-chamber execution of Jimmy Lee Gray.

Execution methods and historical context

connections

Mississippi State Penitentiary is part of the Death Penalty Prisons and Execution Facilities in the United States hub. As the archive expands, additional executions and prisoners can be attached without turning the facility page into a loose list: each connection is kept as a structured, source-bound relationship.

Sources

– Mississippi Department of Corrections — Scheduled Executions – Mississippi Department of Corrections — Photo Gallery: Death Row and Execution Chamber