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I tagged the Lead section of this article as having extra information that is not included in the body of the article. See MOS:LEAD for what the lead secion should contain and how it should be written. The lead should introduce and summarize an article, not contain details not discussed by the article. While the first sentence should remain, the second sentence talks about the murder rate. Strictly speaking, the rate of people being murdered in Mississippi is outside the scope of an article about the law about murder in Mississippi. Instead it should be discussed in an article about Murder in Mississippi. However, discussing the rate at which the law ia exercised is a valid discussion point, and one that needs more explanation in the article, before including it in the lead section. Otherwise, this raises the expectations of the reader's of what the article will contain, only for them to be let down when nothing is written about the issue. This is misleading to the reader. - Cameron Dewe ( talk) 22:08, 2 February 2024 (UTC) reply