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Tag Archives: capital murder
Jim Hood: undermining the rights of criminal defendants
It seems that while Willie Manning has been languishing in his cell, the Attorney General, Jim Hood, has been busy harassing experienced capital defense lawyers in Mississippi. Radley Balko relates that Hood has found a way to do this by using … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishmant, criminal justice, death peanlty, Jim Hood, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, capital murder, capital punishment, Chris Fabricant, criminal defendants, criminal justice, death penalty, Fly Manning, forensics, Injustice, Innocence Project, Jim Hood Attorney General, legal rights, Michael West, Mississippi, September 2016, Tucker Carrington, USA, Vanessa Potts, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
“Willie wouldn’t bust a grape.”
Today Willie Jerome Manning is 48. This is his 23rd birthday on death row. When Willie was a child there was little money to celebrate birthdays. A childhood friend of his family, David Skato, recalls the ‘poverty stricken’ community where they … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death peanlty, defense attorneys, Fly Manning, Mississippi, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, capital defense attorneys, capital murder, character witnesses, David Skato, death penalty, Death Row, Fly Manning, Injustice, June 2016, Mary Prater, Mississippi, Oktibbeha County, Starkville, The Other Side of Justice, USA, Vincent Hill, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
More Propaganda against Willie
It’s happened again – Willie Manning has been the victim of extremely negative media propaganda within Mississippi. Ignoring the Mississippi Supreme Court’s ruling that the state suppressed significant, potentially exculpatory evidence at Willie’s trial for his 1993 case, a Mississippi journalist … Continue reading
Posted in death penalty, Death Row, due-process rights, Fly Manning, Injustice, media bias, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, Mississippi judicial system, Mississippi Supreme Court, perjured testimony, police, recanting witness, suppressed evidence, USA, Willie Fly Manning, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, witness testimony, wrongful convictions
Tagged 2015, capital murder, death penalty, Death Row, Emmoline Jimmerson and Alberta Jordan, Fly Manning, Injustice, journalism, March 2015, media, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court, Oktibbeha County, propaganda, Sid Salter, state suppression of evidence, victimization, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful conviction
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
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
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
Twenty Wasted Years
Today, November 10 2014, is a significant landmark for Willie Jerome Manning: on this day it is twenty years since he first entered Mississippi’s death row. When he was taken onto death row the first official White House website had just … Continue reading
Posted in African American injustice, American justice, criminal justice, death penalty, death penalty USA, Death Row, DNA testing, execution, Fly Manning, Injustice, Mississippi, Mississippi judicial system, Mississippi Supreme Court, Oktibbeha County, prison conditions, solitary confinement, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged 2014, African American, capital murder, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, Fly Manning, Injustice, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary Parchman, Mississippi Supreme Court, November 2014, Oktibbeha County, solitary confinement, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Watch Willie’s Oral Argument Live!
If you wish to bypass media reports and instead listen live to the arguments in Willie Jerome Manning’s second case, you can do so next Monday. A webcast from the Mississippi Supreme Court will allow access to the court proceedings … Continue reading
Posted in Brookville Garden, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Fly Manning, incentivized witness testimony, Injustice, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court, Oktibbeha County, perjured witness testimony, prosecutor misconduct, suppressed evidence, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, witness testimony, wrongful convictions
Tagged 2014, African American, Alberta Jordan, Brookville Garden, capital murder, death penalty, Death Row, Emmoline Jimmerson, Fly Manning, Injustice, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court, October 2014, Oktibbeha County, prosecutorial misconduct, unreliable witnesses, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, witnesses
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
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
