Tag Archives: capital punishment

Prosecutors: Many Bad Apples

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Justice for Willie

The Daily Beast’s series of articles on prosecutors this summer was alarming. This summary gives a taste of the content: “American prosecutors are powerful officials. They have the power to deprive people of their liberty, destroy their reputations, and even take … Continue reading →

Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, Mississippi, prosecutorial misconduct, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning | Tagged African American, capital punishment, death penalty, election, FBI hair testimony, Forrest Allgood, Judge Alex Kozinski, Kennedy Brewer, Levon Brooks, Mississippi, prosecutor immunity, prosecutor misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, Sabrina Butler, September 2015, Tyler Edmonds, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions | Leave a comment

Richard Glossip: Tenuous, Untrustworthy Evidence of Guilt

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Justice for Willie

Richard Glossip is scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma on Wednesday (September 16, 2015). One of his current attorneys, Don Knight, has described his trial in marketing terms: “Basically, you’ve got prosecution trying to sell their product [Glossip’s responsibility for … Continue reading →

Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, executions, Fly Manning, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Richard Glossip, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions | Tagged Barry Scheck, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, Don Knight, Exculpatory evidence, execution, exoneration, FBI flawed testimony, Fly Manning, innocence, Mississippi, Oklahoma, prosecutors, Richard Glossip, September 2015, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions | Leave a comment

Mississippi Executions Stopped Temporarily

Posted on August 31, 2015 by Justice for Willie

Richard Jordan, a Vietnam veteran whose mental state deteriorated following his military service, was spared execution in Mississippi last week following a federal judge’s order. The Attorney General’s office had requested an execution for Jordan on Thursday August 27, but the Mississippi Supreme … Continue reading →

Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, executions, Fly Manning, lethal injections, midazolam, Mississippi, pentobarbital, torture, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning | Tagged August 2015, capital punishment, cruel and unusual punishment, death penalty, Death Row, executions, Fly Manning, Glossip et al. v. Gross et al., human rights abuse, Judge Henry T. Wingate, lethal injections, midazolam, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, pentobarbital, Richard Jordan, Ricky Chase, torture, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning | 3 Comments

Willie’s DNA Profile Requested

Posted on August 15, 2015 by Justice for Willie

Today it is exactly two years – 730 long days – since a mandate from the Mississippi Supreme Court allowed Willie Manning to pursue his request for DNA testing and fingerprint comparison. For Willie the two years must have seemed interminable. … Continue reading →

Posted in African American, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, DNA profiling, DNA testing, Fly Manning, Mississippi, torture, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning | Tagged African American, August 2015, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, DNA profiling, DNA testing, forensic evidence, Injustice, Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller, Mississippi, Mississippi Department of Corrections, Mississippi Supreme Court, torture, trauma, USA, Willie Fly Manning, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions | Leave a comment

Hope in the Midst of Despair

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Justice for Willie

Imagine being on death row for 20 years, convicted of crimes of which you are innocent. Your juries believed the prosecutors, and during the appeals process your innocence becomes irrelevant (appeals focus only on whether correct procedures have been followed). … Continue reading →

Posted in African American, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, Fly Manning, Innocent, Mississippi State Penitentiary Parchman, prison conditions, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions | Tagged African American, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, Fly Manning, heat index, inmates, innocence, Innocent, July 2015, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, prison conditions, prisons, torture, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions | 1 Comment

US Supreme Court: Faulty Analysis of Willie’s Cases

Posted on July 19, 2015 by Justice for Willie

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 | Leave a comment

A Bitter Blow

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Justice for Willie

The Glossip v. Gross ruling is a bitter blow for death penalty opponents. A deeply divided and acrimonious US Supreme Court ruled 5:4 last week that: “Because the death penalty is constitutional there must be a constitutional way of carrying it out.” … Continue reading →

Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, Glossip v. Gross, innocence, Justice Scalia, Mississippi, SCOTUS, USA, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions | Tagged capital punishment, death penalty, executions, Fly Manning, Glossip v. Gross, Ian Millhiser, innocence, John Stinneford, July 2015, Justice Scalia, lethal injections, Michael Radelet, midazolam, Mississippi, Richard Glossip, SCOTUS, Supreme Court of the United States, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions | Leave a comment

DNA Testing: Semen Found

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Justice for Willie

The results of preliminary DNA testing in Willie Manning’s Steckler-Miller case were made public yesterday. The results, given in a letter from a Senior Forensic DNA Analyst at the Cellmark Forensics Dallas Lab, are as follows: Rape kit Three swabs were tested … Continue reading →

Posted in African American, capital punishmant, death penalty, Death Row, Fly Manning, forensic testing, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions | Tagged African American, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, fingerprint comparison, fingerprint matching, Fly Manning, forensic analysis, forensic testing, June 2015, Mississippi, Mississippi Crime Lab, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Oktibbeha County Circuit Court, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions | 1 Comment

A Real Exoneration

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Justice for Willie

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 | Leave a comment

Wrongly Convicted in Two Different Trials

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Justice for Willie

On the same day that Willie Manning was exonerated in his 1993 case (April 20, 2015) the FBI published a report relevant to his 1992 case. The report confirms the gist of Flawed Forensics, last year’s Al Jazeera program featuring Willie, that … Continue reading →

Posted in African American, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, exonerations, flawed forensic hair testimony, Fly Manning, Innocent, Mississippi, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions | Tagged African American, ballistics testimony, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, Death Row, exoneration, FBI, flawed forensic testimony, Fly Manning, hair testimony, Innocence Project, May 2015, Mississippi, Peter Neufield, Robert Dunham, Tucker Carrington, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: capital punishment

Prosecutors: Many Bad Apples

Richard Glossip: Tenuous, Untrustworthy Evidence of Guilt

Mississippi Executions Stopped Temporarily

Willie’s DNA Profile Requested

Hope in the Midst of Despair

US Supreme Court: Faulty Analysis of Willie’s Cases

A Bitter Blow

DNA Testing: Semen Found

A Real Exoneration

Wrongly Convicted in Two Different Trials

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