What actually happened to a person who was revived/survived death sentence

Here is a question before us

If a person is revived/survived after the death sentence, is he free, imprisoned or sentenced to death again?

There’s actually been a case like that.

In 1893, a convicted murderer named Will Purvis was hung, but survived. A lot of people thought he was innocent, and he steadfastly proclaimed his innocence. A group of churchgoers who were part of the crowd were praying that he might be delivered right up to the moment that the lever opening the trap door through which Purvis would drop was pulled.

The noose didn’t hold and Purvis survived. At this point the entire crowd believed this was a sign from God that Purvis was innocent, but the judge and the lawyers agreed that the sentence was “hung by the neck until dead.” Though Purvis had fulfilled the first requirement, he hadn’t managed the second.

The sheriff was ordered to rehang the prisoner immediately. But, being a God-fearing man himself (to say nothing of being a politician dependent on the votes of all those other God-fearing people for his job security), he refused.

Purvis was returned to jail. He later escaped, and turned himself in when the governor commuted his sentence to life.

Later, he was, in fact, proven innocent, when the actual murderer made a deathbed confession. At that point, and only at that point, was Purvis pardoned and apologized to.

Until the commutation, the death penalty still stood

Here is the story 

Will Purvis (1872-1938) was a member of the White Caps, a group with foundations similar to the Ku Klux Klan. He was convicted of the murder of Will Buckley in 1894 and always maintained his innocence. Purvis scornfully told the jury he would "live longer than the lot of them". He was sentenced to death by hanging, but survived since the noose loosened around his neck. He remained imprisoned until December 20, 1898, when he was pardoned.

While he was free, Purvis continued to maintain that he had been wrongly convicted. In 1917, Purvis' innocence was finally proven. On his deathbed, another man, Joe Beard, confessed that he had been involved in the ambush and identified the killer as Louis Thornhill. Louis Thornhill was never brought to trial. He had died years prior. Mississippi's law also required the signature of witnesses and a signed copy of the deathbed confession. Since there was no written acknowledgement of the confession, the perpetrator could not be prosecuted.

Due to Beards's confession, Will Purvis was given $5000.00 in restitution by the Mississippi Legislature for having been wrongfully convicted and imprisoned.

William Isaac Purvis died in Purvis, Mississippi, on October 13, 1938, three days after the last juror had died. He was 66 years old.

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