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Category Archives: innocence
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
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
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
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
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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
A Bitter Blow
The Glossip v. Gross ruling is a bitter blow for death penalty opponents. A deeply divided and acrimonious US Supreme Court ruled 5:4 last week that: “Because the death penalty is constitutional there must be a constitutional way of carrying it out.” … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, Glossip v. Gross, innocence, Justice Scalia, Mississippi, SCOTUS, USA, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged capital punishment, death penalty, executions, Fly Manning, Glossip v. Gross, Ian Millhiser, innocence, John Stinneford, July 2015, Justice Scalia, lethal injections, Michael Radelet, midazolam, Mississippi, Richard Glossip, SCOTUS, Supreme Court of the United States, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
The Death Penalty: No Place in the Twenty-First Century
The USA is in an increasingly isolated position in tolerating the death penalty: 117 countries last month voted for a global death penalty moratorium, with only 38, including the USA, voting against this. In its opposition America keeps strange company; … Continue reading
Posted in American justice, capital defense lawyers, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, defense attorneys, family of executed, Fly Manning, Injustice, innocence, Martin Luther King, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, moratorium on death penalty, prison staff, US constitution, USA, USA constitution, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged 2015, capital defense attorneys, capital murder, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, executions, family of executed, Fly Manning, Injustice, innocence, January 2015, Martin Luther King, Mississippi, moratorium on death penalty, prison staff, United Nations, USA constitution, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
