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- Legal Challenges to Execution Methods July 25, 2017
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Category Archives: death peanlty
The Man in the Orange Jumpsuit
Willie Manning’s name appears as number 153 on the list of death row exonerations published by the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC); but because of another, unrelated capital conviction he is still behind bars on Mississippi’s death row. He remains “the … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishmant, criminal justice, death peanlty, Fly Manning, Injustice, innocence, Mississippi, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged African American, Alabama, Alfred Dewayne Brown, Anthony Ray Hinton, capital punishment, coercion, death penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, Death Row, exonerees, Fly Manning, Injustice, innocence, Mississippi, November 2016, official misconduct, suppressed evidence, Texas, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Jim Hood: undermining the rights of criminal defendants
It seems that while Willie Manning has been languishing in his cell, the Attorney General, Jim Hood, has been busy harassing experienced capital defense lawyers in Mississippi. Radley Balko relates that Hood has found a way to do this by using … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishmant, criminal justice, death peanlty, Jim Hood, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, capital murder, capital punishment, Chris Fabricant, criminal defendants, criminal justice, death penalty, Fly Manning, forensics, Injustice, Innocence Project, Jim Hood Attorney General, legal rights, Michael West, Mississippi, September 2016, Tucker Carrington, USA, Vanessa Potts, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
A Two-person Crime
A radio blog* recorded the day before Willie Jerome Manning’s scheduled execution in May, 2013, features Vincent Hill, a private investigator and former policeman. Hill re-examined the evidence in Willie’s 1992 case, and found many omissions and inconsistencies. Here David Skato, … Continue reading
Posted in African American, America, capital punishmant, criminal justice, death peanlty, DNA testing, innocence, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, Starkville, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged African American, death penalty, DNA testing, Earl Jordan, fingerprint comparison, Fly Manning, Injustice, jailhouse snitches, Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller, June 2016, law enforcement, Mississippi, Mississippi State University, Oktibbeha County, police, snitch testimony, The Other Side of Justice, Vincent Hill, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
“Willie wouldn’t bust a grape.”
Today Willie Jerome Manning is 48. This is his 23rd birthday on death row. When Willie was a child there was little money to celebrate birthdays. A childhood friend of his family, David Skato, recalls the ‘poverty stricken’ community where they … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death peanlty, defense attorneys, Fly Manning, Mississippi, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, capital defense attorneys, capital murder, character witnesses, David Skato, death penalty, Death Row, Fly Manning, Injustice, June 2016, Mary Prater, Mississippi, Oktibbeha County, Starkville, The Other Side of Justice, USA, Vincent Hill, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
A Critical Turning Point
Last week the pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, announced it was prohibiting the use of its chemicals as execution drugs: thus was the US death penalty brought to a new juncture. As the human rights organisation, Reprieve, commented: “This is a critical … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishmant, criminal justice, death peanlty, Death Row, execution drugs, executions, Fly Manning, lethal injections, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged capital punishment, compounding pharmacies, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, execution drugs, executions, FDA, firing squad, Fly Manning, Injustice, lethal injection drugs, lethal injections, May 2016, Mississippi, Pfizer, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Nobody’s that Stupid
For the second time, the Mississippi Supreme Court has asked for an update on the progress of Willie Manning’s remaining case. So far there has been no response from Willie’s lawyer or the Attorney General’s office. We should, anyway, be … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishmant, criminal justice, death peanlty, Fly Manning, Injustice, innocence, Mississippi, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged African American, April 2016, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, Fly Manning, incentivized witnesses, Injustice, innocence, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court, Sheriff Dolph Bryan, The Truth Machine: the Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting, USA, Vincent Hill, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Three Setbacks and a Death
US Supreme Court Justice Scalia, who died last week at a luxury ranch in Texas, would have welcomed three recent setbacks for death penalty opponents in the administration of the death penalty in Mississippi. Last year, Justice Scalia joined the … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishmant, death peanlty, executions, Fly Manning, Justice Scalia, lethal injection drugs, Mississippi, secrecy, US Supreme Court, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged Attorney General jim Hood, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, execution methods, executions, February 2016, Fifth Circuit, Fly Manning, Gl, Glossip et al. v. Gross et al., Justice Scalia, lethal injection drugs, midazolam, Mississippi, Mississippi Senate Bill 2237/2016, SCOTUS, secrecy, US Supreme Court, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Not Once, but Twice
Right at the end of 2015, Willie Manning’s name again appeared in a national newspaper: the New York Times reminded its readers about his exoneration earlier in the year. The New York Times was wrong to describe the victims in the … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishmant, death peanlty, exonerations, Mississippi, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged 2016, African American, capital punishment, circumstantial evidence, death penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, death sentence, exonerations, flawed forensics, Fly Manning, Injustice, January 2016, Mississippi, police misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Many Positives
Willie Jerome Manning was permitted to seek DNA and fingerprint testing over two years ago, but still there is no news of the final results. Long waits are normal on death row, but this one must be particularly challenging: Willie … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishment, death peanlty, Fly Manning, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged Amnesty International (UK), botched executions, capital punishment, death penalty, DNA testing, fingerprint comparison, Fly Manning, innocence, Justice Kennedy, Justice Scalia, lethal injection drugs, Mississippi, National Association of Evangelicals, October 2015, Pope Francis, President Obama, Richard Glossip, US Congress, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
