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Category Archives: US Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court’s Exceptional Barbarity
While we were celebrating the resumption of DNA testing for Willie Manning, the US Supreme Court was shunting the American death penalty into new, shocking levels of brutality. The opinion is described by various legal analysts as “bloodthirsty and cruel”, … Continue reading
Posted in Bucklew v. Precythe, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty unconstitutionality, executions, US Supreme Court, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged Bucklew v. Precythe, capital punishment, death penalty, Eighth Amendment, executions, Fly Manning, Garrett Epps, intellectual disability, juveniles, lethal injection drugs, Matt Ford, May 2019, Missouri, nitrogen hypoxia, Russell Bucklew, US Supreme Court, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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
US Supreme Court: Faulty Analysis of Willie’s Cases
Death penalty supporters disappointed by last month’s US Supreme Court ruling are finding hope for the future in the dissents to the ruling, supported by four of the nine justices. Justice Breyer’s dissent is particularly comprehensive: “I would ask for full … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, Fly Manning, Glossip v. Gross, Justice Breyer, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, SCOTUS, US Supreme Court, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged capital punishment, death penalty, DNA testing, FBI flawed hair testimony, Fly Manning, Glossip v. Gross, Jimmerson-Jordan murders, July 2015, Justice Breyer, Justice Breyer's dissent, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, SCOTUS, Steckler-Miller murders, US Supreme Court, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Willie’s Suffering – a Central Election Issue
Rick Halperin was far from circumspect about capital punishment when he spoke on a United Nations panel last week (see video at 19.00). He condemned the death penalty as ‘state sponsored revenge’, ‘physical and psychological terror and torture’, and a symptom … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, Fly Manning, human rights violation, Mississippi, Presidential election 2016, torture, United Nations, US Supreme Court, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged 2015, America, April 2015, atrocities, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, executions, Fly Manning, human rights violation, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court, Parchman, Presidential election 2016, Rick Halperin, torture, United Nations, US Supreme Court judges, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
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
Death Row Inmates: Diminished Culpability
Willie Jerome Manning is yet again waiting for developments in both his cases. As he waits, he is in close proximity to his fellow inmates, and may well be aware of many who are extremely vulnerable. A study published in June, … Continue reading
Posted in capital litigation, capital murder, capital punishment, criminal justice USA, death penalty, death penalty abuse, death penalty constitutionality, Death Row, death row intellectual disabiliy, death row mental health, diminished culpability, Fly Manning, Injustice, mental illness USA, Mississippi, The Failure of Mitigation, US Supreme Court, USA injustice, Willie Fly Manning, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged 2014, August 2014, capital murder, childhood trauma, criminal justice system USA, death penalty, Death Row, diminished culpability, Edwin Hart Turner, Fly Manning, Injustice, intellectual disability, mental illness, Mississippi, Robert J. Smith, Sophie Cull, The Failure of Mitigation, Willie Fly Manning, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, Zoë Robinson
