Hey, voters in Jackson, Mississippi. I can understand the impulse to replace your current mayor in the primary elections. I get it.

But did you have to kill him?

The mayor of Mississippi's largest city [Jackson's Mayor Frank Melton] died early Thursday, less than two days after losing a primary re-election bid overshadowed by federal prosecution efforts to convict him in a 2007 sledgehammer raid on an alleged crackhouse. He was 60…

Unofficial results show Melton came in third of nine candidates.

Why is "Death" even an option on the voting ballot?

And what happened to the guy who came in ninth place?