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Category Archives: police misconduct
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
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Happy 49th Birthday!
Today is Willie Manning’s 49th birthday. He has spent 22½ years on death row. When Willie was first questioned by law enforcement about the murder of two students he remained upbeat, confident that his innocence would be recognized and that … Continue reading
Posted in African Americans, capital punishmant, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, Fly Manning, law enforcement, Mississippi, police misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged 2500 Club, birthday, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, execution, Fly Manning, Injustice, June 2017, law enforcement, lie detector, Mississippi, Paula Hathorn, police misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, Starkville, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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A Real Exoneration
Well done, Columbus Dispatch, for turning out a well-balanced article by Carl Smith about Willie Manning last month! Smith summarized the information in the legal documents that led to Willie’s exoneration in his 1993 case, and provided links so readers could … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishment, death penalty, death sentence, exonerations, eyewitness testimony, Mississippi, police misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, unreliable witnesses, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, Brookville Garden murders, capital punishment, Carl Smith, Columbus Dispatch Mississippi, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, Exculpatory evidence, exonerations, eyewitness identification, Injustice, May 2015, Mississippi, police misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, recanted testimony, unreliable witnesses, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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Doubt Cast on Officials’ Integrity
At last Willie Manning has only one death penalty case to fight! On Monday, April 20 2015, a Mississippi judge signed an Order of Nolle Prosequi (not wanting to prosecute) for Willie’s Brookville Garden case involving the murders of two elderly … Continue reading
Posted in Brookville Gardens murders, capital murder, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, Fly Manning, Injustice, Mississippi, police misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, snitch testimony, USA, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged 2015, African American, April 2015, Death Row, Emmoline Jimmerson and Alberta Jordan, exoneration, Fly Manning, Forrest Allgood, Kevin Lucious, miscarriage of justice, Mississippi, Oktibbeha County Circuit Court, Police Captain Lindley, police misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, recanted testimony, Sheriff Dolph Bryan, snitch testimony, USA, Willie Manning, wrongful conviction
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A New Trial for Willie Manning!
The anxious wait is over: on Thursday Willie Jerome Manning was granted a new trial for his case involving the 1993 murder of two elderly African American ladies, Emmoline Jimmerson and Alberta Jordan (the Brookville Garden murders). The Mississippi Supreme Court … Continue reading
Posted in American justice, Brookville Garden murders, capital punishment, criminal justice USA, death penalty, Death Row, Emmoline Jimmerson and Alberta Jordan, Fly Manning, incentivized witness testimony, Injustice, jailhouse snitch, law enforcement USA, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, Mississippi judicial system, Mississippi Supreme Court, perjured testimony, police misconduct, prosecutor misconduct, suppressed evidence, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, witness pressured, wrongful convictions
Tagged 2015, Brady violation, Brookville Garden murders, capital murder, conviction reversed, death penalty, Death Row, Emmoline Jimmerson and Alberta Jordan, February 2015, Fly Manning, Injustice, miscarriage of justice, Mississippi, new trial, Oktibbeha County Justice Court, police misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, recanted testimony, Starkville, Troy Davis, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful conviction
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I Can’t Breathe
On recent letters from Willie Jerome Manning the envelopes have carried a message from him: “I can’t breathe”. These, the repeated last words of Eric Garner, a Staten Island man killed in July in a police chokehold, have become a … Continue reading
Posted in African American, America, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, Fly Manning, Injustice, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, Oktibbeha County, police misconduct, racial discrimination, racism, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged 2015, African American, capital murder, Charles P. Pierce, death penalty, Death Row, Dr Douglas Conner, Eric Garner, Fly Manning, I can't breathe, Injustice, January 2015, lynching, Michael Brown, Mississippi, NAACP, Oktibbeha County, racism, Robert Holsey, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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The Bias of White Americans
It seems that racial perceptions of crime have helped to create biased, over-harsh and counterproductive criminal justice policies in the USA. A report published last month* establishes that white Americans significantly overestimate the proportion of crimes committed by racial minorities. For … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death penalty unconstitutionality, Death Row, Fly Manning, Injustice, media bias, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, Mississippi judicial system, police misconduct, punitive sentencing, racial perceptions of crime, racial prejudice, racism, Sentencing Project, USA, victims of crime, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged 2014, African American, capital murder, capital punishment, criminal justice, Death Row, Fly Manning, Injustice, jurors, Latinos, media bias, Mississippi, Nazgol Ghandnoosh, October 2014, punitive sentencing, racial bias, racial perceptions of crime, racism, Sentencing Project, verdict, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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Prosecutors’ Belief in their own Infallibility
It is hard to know what is most shocking about the case of mentally disabled Henry Lee McCollum*, exonerated and released earlier this month after spending 30 years on death row in North Carolina. It is shocking that his mental disability … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, doctrine of sovereign immunity, Fly Manning, Henry Lee McCollum, Injustice, mental disability, Mississippi, Mississippi judicial system, North Carolina, police misconduct, prosecutors, US Supreme Court, USA injustice, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, witness pressured, wrongful convictions
Tagged 2014, African American, capital murder, Clive Stafford Smith, coerced confession, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, doctrine of sovereign immunity, Fly Manning, Henry Lee McCollum, Injustice, Joe Freeman Britt, Justice Antonin Scalia, Leon Brown, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Carolina Republican Party, prosecutorial misconduct, September 2014, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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Watch Documentary Clips on Willie’s New Webpage
If you missed the Al Jazeera America documentary featuring Willie Manning (episode 3 of the series, The System), you now have a chance to watch parts of it on the recently created website, SAVE Innocents on death row in the … Continue reading
Posted in African American injustice, Al Jazeera America The System, capital punishment, criminal justice USA, death penalty, death penalty USA, Death Row Injustice, death row innocence, Fly Manning, Injustice, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, police misconduct, prosecutor misconduct, Willie Fly Manning, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, Willie Manning documentary, wrongful convictions
Tagged 2014, African American injustice, Al Jazeera America The System, capital murder, capital punishment USA, conviction, David Dow, death penalty, death penalty injustice, Death Row, death row innocence, Fly Manning, July 2014, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, Reggie Griffin, Samuel Gross, SAVE innocents on death row in the USA, Vanessa Potkin, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
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Justice for Willie Manning 