Pearl High Shooter Seeking Early Release
The man convicted of killing three and wounding seven in a 1997 rampage in Pearl is asking for clemency.
In a legal ad running this month in the weekly Rankin County News, Luke Woodham says he will ask Gov. Haley Barbour to let him out of prison.
Barbour’s office says the governor hasn’t received Woodham’s request.
Fourteen years ago, Woodham, who was 16 at the time, stabbed and bludgeoned his mother to death. He then went to Pearl High School and opened fire with a hunting rifle on his fellow students and teachers.
When his rampage ended, two students were dead and seven others wounded.
Woodham was tried in Hattiesburg and sentenced to life plus 140 years.
