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JACKSON, Mississippi A Mississippi woman convicted of murdering her husband was granted at least a brief reprieve on Thursday but could still become the first female prisoner executed in the state in 70 years. 
  
 Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood had asked the state Supreme Court to set the execution of Michelle Byrom, 57, for Thursday night for the fatal shooting of her husband, Edward Byrom Sr. in 1999. 
  
 But the court denied Hood's motion to carry out the execution, giving her attorneys hope the court will take up their motion to seek permission to file additional appeals. 
  
 Byrom says she suffered years of physical, sexual and emotional abuse by her husband and was hospitalized with pneumonia the day he died in what prosecutors alleged was a murder-for-hire scheme to collect insurance money. 
  
 Defense attorneys hope the court will consider evidence that Byrom's son was responsible for the murder. 
  
 "It appears they are looking deeply into the issues raised," said Jackson defense attorney David Voisin, who is consulting with Byrom's legal team on her case. "We are cautiously optimistic at this point." 
  
 It is relatively rare for women to be executed in the United States. In February, a Texas woman became the 14th female inmate put to death in the country since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, compared to about 1,400 men executed in that time. 
  
 Byrom is one of two women out of 50 inmates on death row in Mississippi, according to the state's Department of Corrections. 
  
 Prosecutors said Byrom hired her son's friend, Joey Gillis, to shoot her husband. They argued her son's only role was to secure the weapon and dispose of it. 
  
 Michelle Byrom confessed to the crime. But she now says she was just trying to protect her son, Edward Byrom Jr., who testified against her in exchange for a lesser charge. 
  
 The jury that found Michelle Byrom guilty never heard from a state-appointed forensic psychologist who told the judge before trial that the son had admitted to the murder, according to Voisin. The judge also withheld that evidence from Byrom's defense attorneys at the time, Voisin said. 
  
 Barred from the trial, too, were two letters the son wrote to his mother describing how he killed his father after finally snapping from years of abuse. 
  
 "I walked about two steps in the door, and screamed, and shut my eyes, (and) when I heard him move, I started firing," one letter read. 
  
 The judge did not allow the letters to be presented to jurors because defense attorneys failed to share them with the prosecution before the trial, Voisin said. 
  
 Gillis pleaded guilty to conspiracy and accessory after the fact to capital murder. Michelle Byrom's son pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit capital murder, accessory before the fact to grand larceny and accessory before the fact to burglary. 
  
 Both men are now free after serving prison time. 
  
 In a statement, Hood said he was following state law by seeking an execution date after a death-row inmate exhausts all state and federal remedies. 
  
 (Editing by Colleen Jenkins, Stephen Powell and Tom Brown) ||||| Story highlights Defense attorney "grateful" for decision, applauds "just and fair result" in case 
  
 Michelle Byrom was sentenced to death for the 1999 slaying of her husband in Iuka, Mississippi 
  
 Byrom, set to be executed for her husband's murder, gets new trial, state high court says 
  
 Defense says it wants to explore Byrom's son's confession to court-appointed psychologist 
  
 A new trial has been ordered for Mississippi death row inmate Michelle Byrom , according to a state Supreme Court opinion issued Monday. 
  
 Byrom's capital murder conviction was reversed, and the case has been remanded to the circuit court for a new trial, the opinion said. 
  
 "We are very grateful that the Mississippi Supreme Court has granted Michelle Byrom's request for relief from her death sentence," said Byrom's attorney, David Calder. "This was a team effort on the part of the attorneys currently representing Michelle, and we believe that the court reached a just and fair result under the facts presented in this case."​ 
  
 Byrom has been on death row since her 2000 conviction for capital murder. The 57-year-old woman was convicted of being the mastermind of a murder-for-hire plot to kill her allegedly abusive husband, a killing her son had admitted to committing in several jailhouse letters and, according to court documents, in an interview with a court-appointed psychologist. 
  
 He recanted when he was put on the stand, according to court records. 
  
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 Attorney General Jim Hood, who had requested Byrom's execution, said Monday his office would seek the court's reasoning for the reversal. 
  
 "While we respect the Mississippi Supreme Court's decision, it is important that the trial court know and understand the specific errors that were found by the justices so that the lower court knows the best way to proceed," he said. "Our citizens can once again take comfort in the fact that we have a legal system that works for all parties involved." 
  
 The Supreme Court opinion noted that the decision "is extraordinary and extremely rare in the context of a petition for leave to pursue post-conviction relief." 
  
 Oliver Diaz, the former presiding justice of the Supreme Court, called the opinion "actually kinda amazing," from the order for a new trial to the ruling's release on a Monday instead of a Thursday, as usual. 
  
 "The lawyers filed a last ditch motion for additional post conviction relief. These are almost never granted. Defendants are limited to a single post conviction motion," he wrote in an e-mail to CNN. "It is extremely rare to grant and send back for a new trial." 
  
 The court further instructed that a different judge should be assigned to Byrom's new trial. 
  
 Circuit Judge Thomas J. Gardner, who imposed the death sentence on Byrom after her conviction, declined to comment to CNN, saying, "The matter is ongoing." 
  
 Diaz also said the order for a new judge was extraordinary. 
  
 "Also, taking the step of removing the original trial judge is very unusual as well," he wrote. 
  
 Tara Booth, spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Corrections, said the department expects an order Tuesday to transfer Byrom from the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility to Tishomingo County, where the killing occurred. 
  
 Hood, the attorney general, had requested that Byrom be executed "on or before (the date of) March 27," but the Mississippi Supreme Court, which has the final say on execution dates, denied Hood's request. 
  
 During Michelle Byrom's original trial, prosecutors said she plotted to kill her husband, who was fatally shot in his home in Iuka, Mississippi, in 1999 while Michelle was in the hospital receiving treatment for double pneumonia. A jury convicted her based on evidence and testimony alleging that she was the mastermind of the plot. 
  
 Byrom Jr. admitted in jailhouse letters that he had committed the crime on his own after growing tired of his father's physical and verbal abuse, and a court-appointed psychologist has said that Byrom Jr. told him a similar story. 
  
 On the stand, Byrom Jr. pinned the slaying on one of his friends, whom he said his mother had hired for $15,000. 
  
 Following her attorney's advice, Michelle Byrom waived her right to a jury sentencing, allowing the judge to decide her fate. He sentenced her to death. 
  
 Prior to Monday's ruling, Michelle Byrom's defense attorneys had filed a motion asking the court for additional discovery so the alleged confession to the court-appointed psychologist could be fully explored. 
  
 The defense attorneys also want to depose the prosecutor from her trial, Arch Bullard, regarding his knowledge of Byrom Jr.'s alleged confession to the psychologist. 
  
 Bullard has told CNN that he firmly believes Michelle Byrom was the mastermind of the murder-for-hire plot. |||||

A Mississippi woman is glimpsing a ray of sunlight after 14 years on death row. Days after her official execution date, the state Supreme Court today ruled that Michelle Byrom, 57, will be retried, CNN reports. Byrom was convicted 14 years ago of masterminding the murder of her allegedly abusive husband. But her son, Edward Byrom Jr., confessed to the killings in jailhouse letters. He later recanted, and Byrom confessed to the killings, but now says she did so only to protect her son from murder charges, Reuters reports. Byrom's husband was shot dead at home in Mississippi in 1999 while she was in a hospital with double pneumonia. In his testimony, Byrom Jr. said his mother paid one of his friends $15,000 to commit the murder. Byrom took her attorney's advice and let a judge sentence her rather than a jury, but the judge sentenced her to death. It's pretty rare for US women to be executed, Reuters notes: Only 14 have been put to death since 1976, compared to 1,400 men. Byrom is one of two women among 50 death-row inmates in Mississippi.