A Madison lawmaker has joined more than 25 of her colleagues in signing a letter asking the state Parole Board to rescind parole for a convicted teenage murderer.
Over two dozen Mississippi lawmakers are calling for members of the parole board to reverse their decision to release double murderer James Williams, III., who is set to be released in less than one week. In a letter addressed to Chairman Jeffery Belk, 27 legislators from Mississippi’s House of Representatives.
The forced accomplice alongside James Williams III in the 2001 murder of Williams’ stepmother and father has stepped forward to protest the parole board’s release of the convicted killer. Adam White, who was 15 at the time of the murders and forced by Williams to help hide the bodies, provided.
Time is ticking towards the release date of James Williams III, and one of the prosecutors on the case has come out publicly questioning the Mississippi Parole Board’s decision to allow the double murderer to walk free. Flip Weinberg, a former assistant district attorney who served on Williams’ case, explained.