Source: Tetiana Kitura / Getty When you murder someone in cold blood, you deserve the worst consequences that are legally available. According to ABC News, a Black Mississippi man named Sheldon "Timothy" Herrington Jr. pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of a University of Mississippi graduate student. That student, Jimmie "Jay" Lee, was a prominent member of the local LGBTQ+ community and was also the alleged secret lover of Herrington Jr. The guilty plea led prosecutors to reduce the original charge of capital murder to second-degree. As a result, Herrington Jr.