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Category Archives: Mississippi State Penitentiary
Hope for the Future
Today, June 12, 2022 is Willie Manning’s 54th birthday. We wish him a very happy birthday. Willie is upbeat at the moment. He is optimistic about how his remaining case is going, as the DNA testing that he was granted … Continue reading
Posted in Death Row, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, prison conditions, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged 2022, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, Fly Manning, June 2022, Justice Department, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, prison conditions, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, Yo Gotti
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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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COVID-19
Staying inside a tiny prison cell all day, every day, day after day is not easy. Willie Manning likes taking advantage of the little opportunity he gets to go outside for restricted exercise, where he may also find solace in … Continue reading
Posted in corona virus, COVID-19,, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged April 2020, corona virus, Death Row, Fly Manning, hand washing, isolation, Mississippi, Mississippi Department of Corrections, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, soap, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, Yo Gotti
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Sickness and Deaths
Willie Manning’s prison, Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, is inspected annually; failures in safety and health obligations are then uncovered. Several times previously we have noted the problems at the prison.* This year is no different: an inspection in June … Continue reading
Posted in Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, prison conditions, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged August 2019, capital punishment, Cliff Johnson, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, Fly Manning, health, MacArthur Justice Center, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, prison conditions, Ron Welch, safety, sanitation, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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Epps’ Last Chapter
Christopher Epps was the Mississippi Corrections Commissioner for 12 of the 22 years that Willie Manning has spent on the state’s death row. Now Epps is facing his own lengthy incarceration – nearly 20 years of it – for taking $1.4 million … Continue reading
Posted in Christopher Epps, corruption, Mississippi, Mississippi Corrections Commissioner, Mississippi State Penitentiary, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged bribery, Cecil McCrory, Chris Epps, Christopher Epps, corruption, Death Row, Dr. Carl Reddix, Fly Manning, Irb Benjamin, Judge Wingate, Mark Longoria, May 2017, Mississippi, Mississippi Corrections Commissioner, Mississippi State Penitentiary, prison contracts, Sam Waggoner, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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Multiple, Repeated Hygiene Breaches
The kitchen that provides food for Willie Manning and other Unit 29 inmates in Parchman prison, Mississippi, was closed down from July 24 because of its multiple, repeated hygiene breaches. Among the violations reported were: -Cornbread baked on dirty racks. -Bread … Continue reading
Posted in Death Row, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, prison conditions, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, Death Row, Fly Manning, food hygiene, food safety, Injustice, Marshall Fisher, Mississippi, Mississippi Department of Corrections, Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner, Parchman, prison conditions, prison food, September 2016, torture, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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Mississippi Prisoners Malnourished
According to the Mississippi Food Network, one in four Mississippians do not have enough to eat: many therefore use food pantries. Prisoners, however, have no access to these. And according to Margaret Winter, associate director of the ACLU National Prison Project, … Continue reading
Posted in commissary, Death Row, Fly Manning, malnutrition, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, prison commissary, prison conditions, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged ACLU National Prison Project, capital punishment, commissary, death penalty, Death Row, December 2015, Fly Manning, malnutrition, Margaret Winter, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, prison commissary, prison conditions, prisoners' families, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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A Very Big Beast in Mississippi
Mississippi’s Attorney General, Jim Hood, who was so vociferously in favour of Willie Jerome Manning’s execution two years ago, is embroiled in a battle to suppress the identity of people involved in executions and of those providing drugs for lethal … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, compounding pharmacies, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, execution drugs, executions, Fly Manning, Injustice, Jim Hood Attorney General, lethal injections, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, North America, Parchman, pharmaceutical companies, United States of America, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged 2015, American Pharmacists’ Association, April 2015, Brister Brothers, capital punishment, compounding pharmacies, death penalty, Death Row, executions, Fly Manning, Hinds County Chancery Court, House Bill 1305, International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists, Jim Craig, Jim Hood, Judge Denise Owens, lethal injection drugs, Mississippi, Mississippi Department of Corrections, Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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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
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