The Mississippi Innocence Project and Innocence Project New Orleans have filed a friend of the court brief asking for a stay of execution for Willie. They remind the court that his case is exactly the kind where DNA testing could prove innocence or guilt. They say that in seven cases, when the Mississippi Innocence Project asked for DNA testing, the convicted person was found to be innocent; moreover, in six of the cases the true perpetrator was convicted.

Read more about this at the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal .