Category Archives: wrongful convictions

Discrimination incriminates

Posted on February 23, 2025 by Justice for Willie

Two briefs supporting Willie Manning have been submitted to the Mississippi Supreme Court. The national and local Innocence Projects use theirs to show that jailhouse informant testimony, unreliable forensic science, and prosecutorial misconduct are “leading contributing factors to wrongful conviction”. … Continue reading →

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Judicial District 16: Official Misconduct and False Forensics

Posted on November 2, 2024 by Justice for Willie

Both Willie Manning’s capital cases were tried in Mississippi’s judicial district 16. His 2015 exoneration in the Jimmerson-Jordan case is one of seven known wrongful capital convictions stemming from the same prosecutor in that district. All these cases feature false … Continue reading →

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Mississippi Supreme Court “Perverts its Function”

Posted on September 18, 2024 by Justice for Willie

Willie Manning’s long road to achieving justice has been blocked again: the Mississippi Supreme Court, in a close and shocking 5-4 decision*, has barred Willie from taking newly discovered evidence to the circuit court. The dissenting judges are strong in … Continue reading →

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New Video /Podcast Page

Posted on August 22, 2024 by Justice for Willie

If you’d like to learn more about Willie Manning’s case from videos or podcasts, it’s now easier to do so. There are links to several videos and a podcast on a new page on the Justice for Willie Manning website. … Continue reading →

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 New Video: The Case was Fabricated

Posted on August 2, 2024 by Justice for Willie

A new video about Willie Manning’s remaining case has been launched, showing how aspects of his trial that suggested guilt have now been demolished. Yet the real possibility of Willie’s execution remains. Ballistics evidence formed a significant part of the … Continue reading →

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A white man yelling, followed by gun shots

Posted on January 1, 2024 by Justice for Willie

Students Tiffany Miller and Jon Steckler were murdered 31 years ago. We remember with compassion all those who still mourn the two young lives cut brutally short. Miller lived in a trailer at what is now called University Hills Mobile … Continue reading →

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Twenty-Five Years on Death Row

Posted on November 10, 2019 by Justice for Willie

Today, November 10, 2019, marks 25 years since Willie Manning first entered death row. A jury had found him guilty of murdering Tiffany Miller and Jon Steckler, despite no physical evidence linking him to the murders. Two years later Willie … Continue reading →

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Racially Charged Injustice

Posted on October 30, 2019 by Justice for Willie

Like Willie Manning, Rodney Reed is on death row in the south of the USA, with a case that is racially charged: Reed, who is black, was found guilty by an all-white jury of murdering a white woman in Texas … Continue reading →

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The Real Murderers may have Killed Again

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Justice for Willie

Willie Manning has always claimed innocence in both his cases, and has already been exonerated in one case. Referring to Willie’s remaining case, former policeman Vincent Hill explains that the murders of two students indicate not robbery, but a crime of … Continue reading →

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“This System’s all a Lie”

Posted on March 4, 2018 by Justice for Willie

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 →

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