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- The Suffering of Parchman’s Death Row February 22, 2020
- Shocking Deaths January 12, 2020
- Grounds for Optimism December 17, 2019
- Twenty-Five Years on Death Row November 10, 2019
- Racially Charged Injustice October 30, 2019
- A Trail of Hidden Victims September 27, 2019
- Sickness and Deaths August 15, 2019
- Racially Motivated Manipulation July 17, 2019
- Happy 51st birthday! June 12, 2019
- The US Supreme Court’s Exceptional Barbarity May 18, 2019
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Tag Archives: firing squad
What we are doing is wrong
Of all the execution methods being considered in the Mississippi senate last week, it was the firing squad that was rejected; nitrogen hypoxia and electrocution are still being considered. Discounting the firing squad is understandable, as Radley Balko explains: “We recoil … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, executions, firing squad, human rights abuse, lethal injections, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged Arthur v. Dunn, botched executions, Bryan Stevenson, cruel and unusual punishment, electrocution, executions, firing squad, Fly Manning, Justice Sotomayor, lethal injections, March 2017, midazolam, Mississippi, nitrogen hypoxia, Radley Balko, SCOTUS, Supreme Court of the United States, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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Repressive Social and Racial Control
Two years ago the Mississippi Supreme Court overturned the two murder convictions in Willie Manning’s second case, saying: “[T]he State violated his due-process rights when it failed to provide favorable, material evidence, upon request.” Willie was fortunate. If exculpatory police canvass … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Mississippi, racial control, social control, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged capital punishment, death penalty, electric chair, electrocution, executions, February 2017, firing squad, Fly Manning, Holly Travis, House Bill 638, Injustice, Jen Marlowe, Jim Craig, lethal injections, Mississippi, nitrogen hypoxia, racial control, social control, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
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A Critical Turning Point
Last week the pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, announced it was prohibiting the use of its chemicals as execution drugs: thus was the US death penalty brought to a new juncture. As the human rights organisation, Reprieve, commented: “This is a critical … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishmant, criminal justice, death peanlty, Death Row, execution drugs, executions, Fly Manning, lethal injections, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged capital punishment, compounding pharmacies, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, execution drugs, executions, FDA, firing squad, Fly Manning, Injustice, lethal injection drugs, lethal injections, May 2016, Mississippi, Pfizer, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
The Barbarity of Executions
There have been plenty of lockdowns for Willie Manning on Mississippi’s death row lately, but at least there have been no executions there since 2012. Jim Hood, the Attorney General, wants that to change. And if that means using nitrogen gas, … Continue reading
Posted in America, capital punishment, executions, Mississippi, torture, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged ACLU, Attorney General, capital punishment, death penalty, electric chair, executions, February 2016, firing squad, Fly Manning, Jim Hood, lethal injections, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, nitrogen gas, Oklahoma, Pope Francis, Tennessee, USA, Utah, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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