Moreese Bickham

Biography

Moreese Bickham (June 6, 1917 – April 2, 2016) was an American resident of Mandeville, Louisiana who was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to death for the July 12, 1958, killings of two sheriff's deputies, who were allegedly members of the Ku Klux Klan. In 1972, Bickham's death sentence was converted to life without the possibility of parole, after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Furman v. Georgia.

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