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Category Archives: capital punishment
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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Racially Charged Injustice
Like Willie Manning, Rodney Reed is on death row in the south of the USA, with a case that is racially charged: Reed, who is black, was found guilty by an all-white jury of murdering a white woman in Texas … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, racism, Rodney Reed, Texas, USA, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged African American, all-white jury, capital punishment, death penalty, DNA testing, execution, flawed forensic testimony, Governor Greg Abbott, Innocence Project, Mississippi, October 2019, racism, Rodney Reed, Texas, USA, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
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A Trail of Hidden Victims
A former commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections has spoken out against the terrible impact of capital punishment on prison staff. Allen L. Ault was responding to this summer’s announcement that the federal death penalty will be resumed after a … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, correctional staff, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged Allen L. Ault, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, executions, federal death penalty, Fly Manning, Mississippi, Mississippi Department of Corrections, Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner, Mississippi State Penitentiary, post traumatic stress disorder, September 2019, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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Racially Motivated Manipulation
Curtis Flowers is an African American man incarcerated alongside Willie Manning on Mississippi’s death row. The way the legal system has operated in Flowers’ case has been described as “nothing more than one human being tormenting another because he can.” … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, Curtis Flowers, death penalty, jurors, prosecutor misconduct, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, black jurors, capital punishment, criminal justice, Curtis Flowers, death penalty, Doug Evans, Fly Manning, July 2019, juror strikes, jurors, Mississippi, prosecutor misconduct, racial discrimination, skepticism, US Supreme Court, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, Winona
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The US Supreme Court’s Exceptional Barbarity
While we were celebrating the resumption of DNA testing for Willie Manning, the US Supreme Court was shunting the American death penalty into new, shocking levels of brutality. The opinion is described by various legal analysts as “bloodthirsty and cruel”, … Continue reading
Posted in Bucklew v. Precythe, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty unconstitutionality, executions, US Supreme Court, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged Bucklew v. Precythe, capital punishment, death penalty, Eighth Amendment, executions, Fly Manning, Garrett Epps, intellectual disability, juveniles, lethal injection drugs, Matt Ford, May 2019, Missouri, nitrogen hypoxia, Russell Bucklew, US Supreme Court, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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