Another Mississippi inmate asks state to set execution date

— A Mississippi death row inmate says he wants the state to start planning his execution — a request that comes weeks after another Mississippi prisoner surrendered appeals and was put to death. “I ask to see that my execution should be carried out forthwith,” Blayde Nathaniel Grayson said in a handwritten letter filed Friday with the state Supreme Court. The state Supreme Court will decide whether to grant Grayson’s request that it set an execution date. Mississippi Department of Corrections spokesman Leo Honeycutt said in response to questions Friday: “As a matter of protocol, MDOC stays ready for whatever the court decides.” One of the current state Supreme Court justices, David Ishee, represented Grayson during his trial and during some appeals of the conviction.