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Recent News:
- A Terrible Old Rule September 20, 2017
- A Clear Pattern of Racial Discrimination September 5, 2017
- Courts’ Complicity August 23, 2017
- A Method of Control August 10, 2017
- Legal Challenges to Execution Methods July 25, 2017
- Frank Parker: Snitch Testimony July 8, 2017
- Home Page Referenced June 23, 2017
- Happy 49th Birthday! June 12, 2017
- Epps’ Last Chapter May 29, 2017
- The USA: A Shameful Record May 13, 2017
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Category Archives: capital punishment
A Terrible Old Rule
Samuel Gross wrote an amicus brief[i] in support of Willie Manning for his concluded case from 1993 (Jimmerson-Jordan murders). This summer Gross, writing more generally, highlighted “a terrible old rule that has done great harm to the accuracy of criminal … Continue reading
Posted in Brady v. Maryland, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Mississippi, United States v. Bagley, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged Brady v. Maryland, Brief of Amicis Curiae, capital punishment, death penalty, Exculpatory evidence, Fly Manning, Injustice, Jimmerson-Jordan murders, jury, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court, Oktibbeha County Circuit Court, prosecutorial misconduct, Samuel Gross, September 2017, United States v. Bagley, USA, verdict, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
A Method of Control
Clive Stafford Smith has played a pivotal role in Willie Manning’s cases, first as Willie’s post-conviction lawyer, and later as publicist for some of the injustices inflicted on him. Last month Stafford Smith joined other death penalty experts in condemning capital … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, Clive Stafford Smith, criminal justice, death penalty, Mississippi, torture, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, August 2017, capital punishment, Clive Stafford Smith, control, death penalty, Death Row, executions, Fly Manning, Injustice, Mississippi, post traumatic stress disorder, post-conviction defense lawyer, racism, torture, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Frank Parker: Snitch Testimony
At the trial where Willie Manning was convicted of murdering two students, Frank Parker testified that he had overheard Willie saying he “sold the gun on the street”. Thus Willie was linked to the murders, and specifically to the missing … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, Fly Manning, incentivized witnesses, jailhouse informant, jailhouse snitch, Mississippi, snitch testimony, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged capital punishment, death penalty, Fly Manning, Frank Parker, incentivized witness testimony, jailhouse informant, jailhouse snitches, July 2017, Mississippi, Oktibbeha County, police misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, Radley Balko, Sheriff Dolph Bryan, snitch testimony, Starkville, Texas, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Abominations Masked by Secrecy
Willie Jerome Manning first came to the world’s attention because of an article by Clive Stafford Smith, who continues to speak out against the death penalty. Stafford Smith recently described the US death penalty as a dying dinosaur – destined for … Continue reading
Posted in Arkansas, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, execution drugs, executions, Fly Manning, Injustice, innocence, lethal injection drugs, Mississippi, pharmaceutical companies, secrecy, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged April 2017, Arkansas, botched executions, Clive Stafford Smith, compounding pharmacies, executions, Fly Manning, Ineffective trial attorneys, innocence, Justice King, lethal injection drugs, lethal injections, Mississippi, Mississippi Department of Corrections, pharmaceutical companies, Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center, Supreme Court of Mississippi, USA, vulnerable people, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
What we are doing is wrong
Of all the execution methods being considered in the Mississippi senate last week, it was the firing squad that was rejected; nitrogen hypoxia and electrocution are still being considered. Discounting the firing squad is understandable, as Radley Balko explains: “We recoil … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, executions, firing squad, human rights abuse, lethal injections, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged Arthur v. Dunn, botched executions, Bryan Stevenson, cruel and unusual punishment, electrocution, executions, firing squad, Fly Manning, Justice Sotomayor, lethal injections, March 2017, midazolam, Mississippi, nitrogen hypoxia, Radley Balko, SCOTUS, Supreme Court of the United States, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Repressive Social and Racial Control
Two years ago the Mississippi Supreme Court overturned the two murder convictions in Willie Manning’s second case, saying: “[T]he State violated his due-process rights when it failed to provide favorable, material evidence, upon request.” Willie was fortunate. If exculpatory police canvass … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Mississippi, racial control, social control, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged capital punishment, death penalty, electric chair, electrocution, executions, February 2017, firing squad, Fly Manning, Holly Travis, House Bill 638, Injustice, Jen Marlowe, Jim Craig, lethal injections, Mississippi, nitrogen hypoxia, racial control, social control, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Incarcerated by Fellow Citizens
Those on death row suffer unimaginable torture; the inmates who have been wrongly convicted do so even more. Like kidnap victims, those with wrongful convictions have been seized and held against their will; but, unlike kidnap victims, they are not … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, Mississippi, post traumatic stress disorder, USA, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, February 2017, Florida, Fly Manning, Injustice, innocence, Ireland, meditation, Mississippi, Peter Pringle, post traumatic stress disorder, Professor Gordon Turnbull, Sunny Jacobs, torture, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions, yoga
Less fortunate than ourselves
It is ten years since Clive Stafford Smith alerted the world to Willie Manning’s appalling plight. Stafford Smith’s article began: “It is a platitude to suggest that as the Christmas season approaches we should consider those less fortunate than ourselves, but … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, death row mental health, death row solitary confinement, Fly Manning, human rights abuse, Injustice, innocence, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, capital punishment, Clive Stafford Smith, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, December 2006, December 2016, Fly Manning, human rights abuses, Injustice, innocence, Mississippi, Mississippi courts, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
President Trump
President Obama has misgivings about the application of the death penalty; President Trump will have no such qualms. In 1989 Trump funded full page ads in four New York newspapers, calling for the return of the death penalty. The ads referred … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, Central Park Five, death penalty unconstitutionality, Fly Manning, Mississippi, torture, Trump, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, botched executions, capital punishment, Central Park Five, death penalty, Donald Trump, FDA, Fly Manning, Kevin Richardson, Latino, lethal injection drugs, Mississippi, November 2016, Supreme Court justices, torture, Trump, USA, waterboarding, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
