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- The Circuit Court Abused its Discretion June 12, 2021
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- 2020: an Eventful Year December 24, 2020
- 2020 US Election October 10, 2020
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- Excessive and Inhuman July 29, 2020
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Category Archives: capital punishment
Thirty Years On
Today, December 11, 2022, marks 30 years since the savage murders of two Mississippi State University students in Starkville, Mississippi. Willie Manning remembers feeling shocked and saddened when he found out about those murders from the television news later that … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Jon Steckler, Mississippi, Tiffany Miller, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, December 2022, DNA testing, Fly Manning, Joe Berlinger, Jon Steckler, Mississippi, Mississippi State University, Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel Mississippi, Thomas Loden, Tiffany Miller, USA, Willie Manning
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A Disappointing Ruling
The Mississippi Supreme Court has denied Willie Manning the opportunity to pursue appropriate DNA testing of hairs found in Tiffany Miller’s car.[i] Willie had asked for specialist testing after screening at Bode Technology lab failed to produce usable data from … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, DNA testing, Supreme Court of Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged Automated Fingerprint Identification System, Bode Technology, capital punishment, death penalty, DNA testing, fingerprint analysis, Fly Manning, Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, John Wise, July 2022, Justice King, Mississippi, mitochondrial DNA, MitoTyping Technologies, Supreme Court of Mississippi, Tiffany Miller, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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Powerless to Help
A few cells away from Willie Manning sits David Cox, who is scheduled to be killed on November 17. At Cox’s trial his lawyers failed to adequately communicate to the jury the impact of the extensive abuse that he suffered … Continue reading
Posted in brain dysfunction, capital punishment, criminal justice, David Cox,, death penalty, Mississippi, trauma, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged ;ethal injection protocol, brain dysfunction, capital punishment, criminal justice, David Cox, death penalty, Death Row, Fly Manning, jurors, lethal injection drugs, Mississippi, Mississippi Office of Post-Conviction Counsel, November 2021, prison staff, psychopathology, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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The Circuit Court Abused its Discretion
Today, Saturday, June 12 is Willie Manning’s 53rd birthday: we wish him a happy birthday. We trust that recent developments in his case help him to spend the day peacefully: his arguments for further DNA testing are strong. In April, … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Fly Manning, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, Bode, Bode Technology, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, Fly Manning, hair evidence, June 2021, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary Parchman, Mississippi Supreme Court, mitochondrial DNA, MitoTyping Technologies, Oktibbeha County Circuit Court, Tiffany Miller, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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February Hope
February has brought unusually severe winter storms to Mississippi, with snow, freezing temperatures and power failures. Conditions on death row at Mississippi State Penitentiary have been harsh: both power and heating have been off. After a couple of freezing cold … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, Fly Manning, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, prison conditions, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged 2021, African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, DNA testing, February 2021, Fly Manning, Judge Lee Howard, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Mississippi Supreme Court, Oktibbeha County Circuit Court, prison conditions, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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2020: an Eventful Year
2020 has been an eventful year for Willie Manning. His case suffered a setback in April, when Judge Lee Howard denied permission for hair fragments from Tiffany Miller’s car to undergo further DNA testing. Willie now has more waiting ahead … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, Black Lives Matter, capital punishment, Covid-19, criminal justice, Curtis Flowers, December 2020, DNA testing, Eddie Lee Howard, Fly Manning, Judge Lee Howard, Mississippi, prison conditions, Tiffany Miller, USA, Willie Manning
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2020 US Election
The death penalty is not mentioned in the President Trump’s vague bullet points that replace the usual platform for the Republican Party in an election year. However, the restoration of federal executions this year confirms the party’s support for capital … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Democratic Party., election, Republican Party,, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged capital punishment, Covid-19, criminal justice, death penalty, defense attorneys, Democrats, election, lethal injection drugs, murder victims' families, Native Americans, October 2020, Republicans, USA, Willie Manning
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Death Row Highs and Lows
Jacob Blake, an African American man, was shot in the back and seriously injured by police in Wisconsin in front of three of his young sons last month. Sadly, news like this is not infrequent, and is always depressing for … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, Eddie Lee Howard, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, Ben Crump, bite mark evidence, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, Eddie Lee Howard, Fly Manning, Forrest Allgood, Jacob Blake, Justice, Mississippi, Mississippi Innocence Project, Scott Colom, September 2020, Tucker Carrington, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, Wisconsin
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Excessive and Inhuman
Willie Manning has been on death row for an astonishing 25 years. He’s not alone in suffering such a long period of incarceration: of the 41 inmates on Mississippi’s death row, 18 have been imprisoned for 20 years or more; … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, incarceration, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, American Declaration of Human Rights, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, DPIC, Fly Manning, human rights abuses, IACHR, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, July 2020, lengthy confinement under sentence of death, Mississippi, The Death Penalty Information Center, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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Grounds for Optimism
2019 is drawing to a close on an optimistic note! Willie Manning’s fellow death row inmate, Curtis Flowers, has finally been granted freedom (on bail) after being subjected to six trials during nearly two decades. The improper prosecutor strikes for … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, Curtis Flowers, death penalty, Mississippi, racism, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged 2019, black jurors, capital punishment, Curtis Flowers, death penalty, Death Row, December 2019, DNA testing, Fly Manning, forensic evidence, hair evidence, juror strikes, Mississippi, prosecutorial misconduct, US Supreme Court, USA, Willie Manning
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