'I ask to see that my execution should be carried out forthwith,' said Grayson in a letter to the state Supreme Court justices filed Friday with the court.
In August 1997, he was convicted of capital murder for stabbing 78-year-old Minnie Smith while burglarizing her home in George County in May 1996, The Associated Press reported. Grayson wrote in his letter that he would give up all his appeals.
Mississippi recently carried out its first execution in nine years on Nov. 17. David Neal Cox was put to death by lethal injection. Cox also gave up all appeals, then filed court papers before the state Supreme Court scheduled his execution, according to theCox was charged with capital murder for shooting his wife, Kim Kirk Cox. He pleaded guilty to the charge, as well as other charges, such as sexual assault.
Cox also thanked Burl Cain, the state corrections commissioner, for"being very kind to me. And that's all I got to say." The state Supreme Court will decide whether to grant Grayson's request that it set an execution date.