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Mississippi Hustle*

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Justice for Willie

Last month a bombshell was dropped in Mississippi: the resignation of the Corrections Commissioner, Christopher Epps, was swiftly followed by his arraignment on charges of accepting bribes of over $1m from a business man and former sheriff’s deputy, Cecil McCrory. … Continue reading →

Posted in America, Cecil McCrory, Christopher Epps, corruption, criminal justice, Death Row, FBI, Fly Manning, Injustice, Mississippi, Mississippi Corrections Commissioner, Mississippi State Penitentiary, no-bid contracts, prison conditions, USA, Willie Fly Manning, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, Willie Manning Mississippi Death Row | Tagged 2014, AdminPros, Cecil McCrory, Christopher Epps, Death Row, December 2014, East Mississippi Correctional Facility, Fly Manning, GT Enterprises, Injustice, Joint Legislative Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review, Keefe Commissary, Mississippi, Mississippi Corrections Commissioner, Mississippi Hustle, Mississippi State Penitentiary, prison conditions, Walnut Grove Correctional Facility, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning | Leave a comment

Lethal Deadlines

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Justice for Willie

Question: When does a deadline become a ‘dead’ line? Answer: When the deadline in question is the crucial one that allows death row inmates to appeal their state convictions in federal courts. If defense attorneys miss this deadline it can … Continue reading →

Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, execution, Fly Manning, Injustice, legal bias, Lori St John, Marshall Project, miscarriages of justice, missed deadline, Mississippi, Mississippi judicial system, post conviction lawyers, post conviction review, procedural default, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions | Tagged 2014, appeals, capital punishment USA, death penalty, Death Row, Federal Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Fly Manning, Gregory Scott Johnson, Injustice, legal bias, legal deadlines, Marshall Project, missed deadlines, Mississippi, November 2014, Washington Post, Willie Fly Manning, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful conviction | Leave a comment

Twenty Wasted Years

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Justice for Willie

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 | Leave a comment

Watch Willie’s Oral Argument Live!

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Justice for Willie

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 | Leave a comment

The Bias of White Americans

Posted on October 5, 2014 by Justice for Willie

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 | Leave a comment

Prosecutors’ Belief in their own Infallibility

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Justice for Willie

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 | Leave a comment

‘Prosecutors hid evidence of innocence’

Posted on September 6, 2014 by Justice for Willie

‘Death row inmate: Prosecutors hid evidence of innocence’, headlines this week’s Clarion Ledger article about the case of Jeffrey Havard, who is held alongside Willie on the Parchman death row. Havard is convicted of inflicting sexual abuse on a baby girl … Continue reading →

Posted in abusive head trauma, Brookville Garden, capital punishment, criminal justice USA, death penalty, death penalty USA, Death Row, Fly Manning, Injustice, Jeffrey Havard, Mississippi, Mississippi judicial system, prosecutor misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, prosecutors, shaken baby syndrome, Steven Hayne, USA injustice, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions | Tagged 2014, abusive head trauma, Brookville Garden murders, capital murder, death penalty, Death Row, Emmoline Jimmerson and Alberta Jordan, Fly Manning, Injustice, Innocent, Jeffrey Harvard, Mississippi, Mississippi judicial system, Mississippi Supreme Court, prosecutor misconduct, prosecutors, September 2014, shaken baby syndrome, Steven Hayne, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions | Leave a comment

Brookville Garden Case: Oral Argument Permitted

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Justice for Willie

The Mississippi Supreme Court has announced that it will allow oral argument in Willie Jerome Manning’s 1993 case involving the murder of two elderly ladies, Emmoline Jimmerson and Alberta Jordan (the Brookville Garden case). The oral argument is scheduled for Monday, October … Continue reading →

Posted in African American, Brookville Garden, capital punishment, death penalty USA, Death Row, Fly Manning, Injustice, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, Mississippi judicial system, Mississippi Supreme Court, perjured witness testimony, prosecutor misconduct, Willie Fly Manning, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions | Tagged 2014, African American, Al Jazeera America The System, August 2014, Brookville Garden murders, capital murder, death penalty, Death Row, Emmoline Jimmerson and Alberta Jordan, Fly Manning, Injustice, Kevin Lucious, Likeesha Harris, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court webcast, Oktibbeha County, pressured witnesses, prosecutorial misconduct, SAVE innocents on death row in the USA, State misconduct, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning | Leave a comment

Death Row Inmates: Diminished Culpability

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Justice for Willie

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 | Leave a comment

Death Penalty Delays Unconstitutional

Posted on August 4, 2014 by Justice for Willie

Last month Judge Cormac J. Carney in California ruled that the death penalty as applied in that state is unconstitutional. His ruling lifted a sentence of death from Ernest Dewayne Jones on the grounds that whether or not he was executed: … Continue reading →

Posted in California death penalty, capital punishment, criminal justice USA, death penalty, death penalty injustice, death penalty USA, Death Row, executions, Fly Manning, Injustice, Innocent, Judge Carney California, Judge Carney ruling, Mississippi, Penalty phase, unconstitutionality of death penalty, USA injustice, Willie Fly Manning, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning | Tagged 2014, American justice, August 2014, California, capital murder, capital punishment, David Greenwald, death penalty, Death Row, deterrence, Eighth Amendment, Ernest Dewayne Jones, executions, Fly Manning, Injustice, Judge Carney, Judge Cormac J. Carney, Mississippi, retribution, unconstitutionality of death penalty, USA death penalty, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Death Row

Mississippi Hustle*

Lethal Deadlines

Twenty Wasted Years

Watch Willie’s Oral Argument Live!

The Bias of White Americans

Prosecutors’ Belief in their own Infallibility

‘Prosecutors hid evidence of innocence’

Brookville Garden Case: Oral Argument Permitted

Death Row Inmates: Diminished Culpability

Death Penalty Delays Unconstitutional

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