Terry Pitchford

Death Penalty Information Center Info

• Age: 38

• Sex: Male

• Race: Black

• State: Mississippi

• County: Grenada

• Inmate Number: 117778

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Brief Case History

Terry Pitchford was convicted at the age of 20 as an accomplice to the robbery and murder of Crossroads Grocery owner Reuben Britt, and he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. Early into investigation, investigators received word that Pitchford’s vehicle matched the description of the vehicle at the crime scene. His vehicle was later located, and the gun identified as the one used to shoot Britt was also found inside the vehicle.

Pitchford confessed to assisting Eric Bullin in the robbery and to witnessing Bullin shoot Britt. He also confessed to an attempted robbery of Crossroads Grocery a week prior to the murder and to his involvement in the murder of two fellow inmates. After his conviction, Pitchford filed a motion for a retrial alleging that the court had been discriminatory in its appointment of jurors, because four out of the seven peremptory strikes made by the court resulted in removing African American jurors, which, Pitchford claims does not align with the fact that Grenada’s population is over forty-percent African American.

Despite motions for further investigation of this suspected racial bias, as well as motions for other mitigation measures to be taken, the courts have denied Pitchford relief, and his sentence remains intact.  

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