(Reuters.) Mississippi’s first execution is set for Wednesday. It will be the execution of a man convicted by Mississippi of sexually assaulting and killing his wife, as well as murdering her estranged husband. This was after a dispute with police back in 2010.

David Cox (55) is due to die by lethal injection in Parchman at 6 pm local time. This execution will be for Kim Cox’s death.

Cox, who would become the 9th American executed prisoner in Mississippi after 2012, will be Cox’s first execution. Mississippi has been one of the states in America that is having difficulties buying lethal injection drugs from companies refusing to sell them.

Cox asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to remove all lawyers from the case. All appeals against him were halted. Cox, in 2018, wrote to the chief judge of the Mississippi Supreme Court, declaring that he was “a guilty person worthy of death.”

Cox purchased a gun on May 14th 2010 and went to Sherman, Mississippi home of his sister-in law. There, he met his ex-wife, two of their children, and stepdaughter. Prosecutors said that Cox broke into the house, took the wife and two of his children hostage and then continued to do so for over eight hours.

Cox fatally shot his wife during a standoff with the police. Cox sexually assaulted his stepdaughter three more times as she lay dying. According to court records, he also refused treatment for his wife. He forced her to beg her for her life in hostage negotiations.

Cox was taken into custody by the police who entered the house early in the morning. After he had pleaded guilty, a jury sentenced him in 2012 to death.