Clyde Wendel Smith has lived in Unit 32 at Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman since April 24, 2001, according to records from the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
He likely won't ever see life beyond the razor wire at Parchman.
Smith lives on death row.
He was convicted in Leflore County of homicide on July 1, 1993.
Records from MDOC shows he will suffer lethal injection for the 1992 murder of Johnny B. Smith during a liquor store robbery. Johnny B. Smith was shot three times.
Smith is one of 69 people - 68 men and one woman - who face execution for crimes various juries found them guilty of committing.
"All of them are at Parchman, except the woman," said Tara Frazier, a spokeswoman for the corrections department. "She is at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Rankin County."
To date, 999 people across the United States have died of various methods of execution for capital crimes since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976.
On Wednesday, 41-year-old Robin Lovitt of Virginia could become the 1,000th executed in nearly three decades. A jury found him guilty of stabbing Clayton Dicks to death with a pair of scissors during a 1999 robbery of an Arlington, Va. pool hall.
Lovitt has admitted he took the cash box but denied killing Dicks.
Others on death row who have connections to this area include Curtis G. Flowers.
He was sentenced in Harrison County in 1999 for killing Derrick Stewart, 16, on July 16, 1996, in Winona.
Bertha Tardy, 59, Carmen Rigby, 45, and Robert Golden, 42 were also murdered.
Flowers continues to live on death row.
Also, Henry Curtis Jackson of Greenwood was sentenced in Copiah County for the murders of two of his nieces and nephews at Rising Sun during a robbery of his mother's house.
Jackson lives on death row.
In May 2002, a jury convicted Lawrence Branch of the beating death of Dorothy Broome Jorden, 57. Jorden was a businesswoman. Court records indicate her murder occurred in January 2001, during a robbery.
Branch remains on death row.
Although Edwin Hart Turner was convicted in Forrest County in February 1997, the jury found him guilty of killing two Carroll County individuals, Eddie Brooks and Everett Curry.
Turner lives on death row.
Mississippians haven't seen an execution since that of Jessie Derrell Williams on Dec. 11, 2002. Williams was the 817th murderer executed in the United States since 1976.
A jury convicted him of raping, torturing and mutilating a teenager, Karon Pierce. A Jackson County jury sent Williams to death row.
Williams, 51 at the time of his execution by lethal injection, refused to eat or make any telephone calls that day, according to reports from eyewitnesses. It took him 12 minutes to die, once officials injected him with the poison.
But Mississippi may execute John Nixon Sr. before the end of the year.
On Monday the Mississippi Supreme Court on Monday set a Dec. 14 execution date for Nixon Sr. convicted in a 1985 murder-for-hire case.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had earlier denied Nixon's claims that his lawyer didn't do a good job and that his Rankin County jury shouldn't have been told about a previous rape conviction.
Nixon, a one-time Utica auto mechanic, was convicted of capital murder in the Jan. 2, 1985, killing of Virginia Tucker, 45, in her Brandon home.
The victim's husband, Thomas, was wounded and identified Nixon as the attacker.
Tucker's ex-husband, Elester Joseph Ponthieux of Raymond, is serving a life sentence for hiring Nixon.
Two of Nixon's sons and a friend were also convicted in the killing.
