Black man who spent years on death row freed after evidence discredited in murder case January 13, 2021 / 1:06 PM / CBS/AP A Black man who spent more than a quarter-century on death row in the 1992 killing of a White woman has been released from a Mississippi prison after a judge dismissed the murder charge against him. Eddie Lee Howard, now 67, was convicted multiple times of capital murder in the stabbing death of 84-year-old Georgia Kemp of Lowndes County, but key evidence used to convict him was later discredited. In Mississippi, capital murder is defined as a killing committed along with another felony. In this case, the other felony was rape.