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Tag Archives: DNA testing
Thirty Years On
Today, December 11, 2022, marks 30 years since the savage murders of two Mississippi State University students in Starkville, Mississippi. Willie Manning remembers feeling shocked and saddened when he found out about those murders from the television news later that … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Jon Steckler, Mississippi, Tiffany Miller, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, December 2022, DNA testing, Fly Manning, Joe Berlinger, Jon Steckler, Mississippi, Mississippi State University, Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel Mississippi, Thomas Loden, Tiffany Miller, USA, Willie Manning
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A Disappointing Ruling
The Mississippi Supreme Court has denied Willie Manning the opportunity to pursue appropriate DNA testing of hairs found in Tiffany Miller’s car.[i] Willie had asked for specialist testing after screening at Bode Technology lab failed to produce usable data from … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, DNA testing, Supreme Court of Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged Automated Fingerprint Identification System, Bode Technology, capital punishment, death penalty, DNA testing, fingerprint analysis, Fly Manning, Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, John Wise, July 2022, Justice King, Mississippi, mitochondrial DNA, MitoTyping Technologies, Supreme Court of Mississippi, Tiffany Miller, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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Hope for the Future
Today, June 12, 2022 is Willie Manning’s 54th birthday. We wish him a very happy birthday. Willie is upbeat at the moment. He is optimistic about how his remaining case is going, as the DNA testing that he was granted … Continue reading
Posted in Death Row, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, prison conditions, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged 2022, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, Fly Manning, June 2022, Justice Department, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, prison conditions, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, Yo Gotti
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February Hope
February has brought unusually severe winter storms to Mississippi, with snow, freezing temperatures and power failures. Conditions on death row at Mississippi State Penitentiary have been harsh: both power and heating have been off. After a couple of freezing cold … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, Fly Manning, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, prison conditions, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged 2021, African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, DNA testing, February 2021, Fly Manning, Judge Lee Howard, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Mississippi Supreme Court, Oktibbeha County Circuit Court, prison conditions, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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2020: an Eventful Year
2020 has been an eventful year for Willie Manning. His case suffered a setback in April, when Judge Lee Howard denied permission for hair fragments from Tiffany Miller’s car to undergo further DNA testing. Willie now has more waiting ahead … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, Black Lives Matter, capital punishment, Covid-19, criminal justice, Curtis Flowers, December 2020, DNA testing, Eddie Lee Howard, Fly Manning, Judge Lee Howard, Mississippi, prison conditions, Tiffany Miller, USA, Willie Manning
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The Puzzle of the Hair Fragments
At Willie Manning’s trial, an FBI hair expert testified about hair fragments vacuumed from Tiffany Miller’s car. The expert stated that the hair was African American (an assertion that the FBI and DOJ discredited in 2013). With no physical evidence … Continue reading
Posted in DNA testing, forensic hair testimony, hair testimony, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, Bode Technology, DNA testing, flawed forensics, Fly Manning, hair testimony, Injustice, Judge Lee Howard, May 2020, Mississippi, MitoTyping Technologies, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful conviction
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Grounds for Optimism
2019 is drawing to a close on an optimistic note! Willie Manning’s fellow death row inmate, Curtis Flowers, has finally been granted freedom (on bail) after being subjected to six trials during nearly two decades. The improper prosecutor strikes for … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, Curtis Flowers, death penalty, Mississippi, racism, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged 2019, black jurors, capital punishment, Curtis Flowers, death penalty, Death Row, December 2019, DNA testing, Fly Manning, forensic evidence, hair evidence, juror strikes, Mississippi, prosecutorial misconduct, US Supreme Court, USA, Willie Manning
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Twenty-Five Years on Death Row
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
Posted in criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, fingerprint analysis, Fly Manning, Forrest Allgood, Jon Steckler, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Mississippi Supreme Court, November 2019, Tiffany Miller, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
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Racially Charged Injustice
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
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, racism, Rodney Reed, Texas, USA, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged African American, all-white jury, capital punishment, death penalty, DNA testing, execution, flawed forensic testimony, Governor Greg Abbott, Innocence Project, Mississippi, October 2019, racism, Rodney Reed, Texas, USA, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
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Happy 51st birthday!
Today, Wednesday June 12, 2019, is Willie Manning’s 51st birthday. We wish him a very happy birthday. On the surface not much has changed for Willie over the last year, but there are signs that the Mississippi Supreme Court is … Continue reading
Posted in DNA testing, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, Fly Manning, forensic evidence, hair analysis, innocence, June 2019, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court, Parchman, USA, Willie Manning, Willie Manning Mississippi, wrongful convictions
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