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Category Archives: Injustice
“This System’s all a Lie”
Steven Hayne was the medical examiner at Willie Manning’s trial and at many others in Mississippi; he was unqualified and scandalously incompetent (see here and here). A book just published, “The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Fly Manning, Injustice, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged African American, capital punishment, Civil Rights Movement, classism, criminal justice, death penalty, flawed forensics, Fly Manning, Jim Crow, lynchings, March 2018, Michael West, Mississippi, racism, Radley Balko, Steven Hayne, The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South, Tucker Carrington, USA, When Death Row Speaks, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Hope in Sherwood Brown’s New Trial
Willie Manning must be happy that his fellow death row inmate and African American, Sherwood Brown, has been granted a new trial by the Mississippi Supreme Court. Like Willie, Brown had been pursuing DNA testing; like Willie, he was granted DNA … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, DNA testing, flawed forensics, Injustice, innocence, Mississippi, Sherwood Brown, USA, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged African American, bite mark evidence, DNA testing, Dr Michael West, flawed testimony, Fly Manning, Injustice, Kennedy Brewer, Mississippi, Mississippi Innocence Project, Mississippi Supreme Court, November 2017, Sherwood Brown, Tucker Carrington, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
A Dirty Secret
It is a “dirty secret”, known by few, that the American death penalty system is “specifically engineered to ensure that those who are convicted stay convicted, guilty or not.”[i] This is how it works. Death sentences routinely result from poor defense … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, defense attorneys, Fly Manning, Injustice, Mississippi, prosecutor misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged AEDPA, African American, capital defense lawyers, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, Fly Manning, habeas corpus petition, Injustice, Mississippi, October 2017, Parchman, prosecutor misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, Richard North Patterson, torture, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful conviction
Courts’ Complicity
Steven Hayne testified as a medical examiner at the trials of several people who are now on death row in Mississippi, including Willie Manning and Jeffrey Havard. Hayne was unqualified and scandalously incompetent. In Havard’s case,* Hayne testified that the … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishmant, criminal justice, death penalty, Injustice, Jeffrey Havard, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court, Steven Hayne, Supreme Court of Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged Attorney General jim Hood, August 2017, capital punishment, Chloe Britt, courts' complicity, criminal justice, death penalty, expert witness, Injustice, Jeffrey Harvard, Jim Hood, medical examiner, Mississippi, pathologist, Radley Balko, Steven Hayne, Supreme Court of Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
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The USA: A Shameful Record
The USA has a poor reputation when it comes to executions. A report* by Amnesty International found the following: -Most UN member states were execution-free last year;** but the USA continued to execute. -The USA was the only one of … Continue reading
Posted in Amnesty International, capital punishmant, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Fly Manning, Injustice, Mississippi, revenge, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged Amnesty International, Arkansas, capital punishment, death penalty, executions, Fly Manning, Injustice, intellectual disabilities, intimidation, Japan, Ledell Lee, lethal injection chemicals, May 2017, Mississippi, Organization of American States, United Nations, US Supreme Court, 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
Testimony Procured Unfairly
Oktibbeha County Sheriff Dolph Bryan investigated both Willie Manning’s cases: in both cases he enlisted and managed state witnesses by unfair means. 1993 Jimmerson-Jordan case Bryan, together with Starkville Police Captain David Lindley, asked Kevin Lucious to sign a false … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishmant, death penalty, Fly Manning, Injustice, USA, Willie Manning, witness coercion
Tagged April 2017, capital punishment, coerced testimony, criminal justice, death penalty, Fly Manning, Injustice, intimidation, Jimmerson-Jordan case, Kevin Lucious, Likeesha Harris, Mississippi, Oktibbeha County, Paula Hathorn, Sheriff Dolph Bryan, Steckler-Miller case, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, witness coercion
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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
A Travesty of Justice
22 years ago, the conviction of Willie Manning for the murder of two students caused anger in the local community, who believed racism had influenced the verdict. On November 19, 1994, the Oktibbeha County NAACP sponsored a protest march* to … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishmant, criminal justice, death penalty, Injustice, innocence, Mississippi, NAACP, Oktibbeha County, racism, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged African Americans, America, capital punishment, death penalty, Douglas Conner, Fly Manning, Injustice, Judge Lee Howard, Mississippi, Mississippi State University, NAACP, November 2016, Oktibbeha County Court, racism, The Reflector, Tiffany Miller, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
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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
