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- Shocking Deaths January 12, 2020
- Grounds for Optimism December 17, 2019
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Category Archives: criminal justice
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
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
Happy 52nd Birthday!
Today, Friday June 12, 2020, is Willie Manning’s 52nd birthday. We wish him a happy birthday. Willie has been depressed by the video footage showing African American George Floyd being killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis, while other … Continue reading
Posted in African American, criminal justice, Mississippi, police misconduct, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, Black Liives Matter, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Fly Manning, George Floyd, innocence, June 2020, Minneapolis, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, police misconduct, racial injustice, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
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
Twenty-Five Years on Death Row
Today, November 10, 2019, marks 25 years since Willie Manning first entered death row. A jury had found him guilty of murdering Tiffany Miller and Jon Steckler, despite no physical evidence linking him to the murders. Two years later Willie … Continue reading
Posted in criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, fingerprint analysis, Fly Manning, Forrest Allgood, Jon Steckler, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Mississippi Supreme Court, November 2019, Tiffany Miller, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
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
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
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
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
DNA Testing Resumes
It seems that Judge Howard’s Scheduling Order, issued in February, is working! Willie Manning must be relieved that more hairs from his case are at last being screened at the Bode Technology lab. The lab anticipates that this stage of the … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, DNA testing, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, April 2019, Bode Technology, capital punishment, death penalty, DNA testing, Fly Manning, forensics, hair evidence, Judge Howard, Mississippi, Oktibbeha County, Scheduling Order, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
