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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Prosecutor who worked on 1 renewal of Emmett Till case dies

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

A Mississippi prosecutor who worked on the reopened investigation into Emmett Till’s 1955 killing has died.

Joyce Chiles died at age 67 after a battle with lung cancer. Ms Chiles was the first Black person and woman to become a prosecutor in the three Mississippi Delta counties of Leflore, Washington and Sunflower when she was elected in 2003, the Associated Press reported.

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