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Recent News:
- A Dirty Secret October 18, 2017
- Without Logic or Fairness October 8, 2017
- A Terrible Old Rule September 20, 2017
- A Clear Pattern of Racial Discrimination September 5, 2017
- Courts’ Complicity August 23, 2017
- A Method of Control August 10, 2017
- Legal Challenges to Execution Methods July 25, 2017
- Frank Parker: Snitch Testimony July 8, 2017
- Home Page Referenced June 23, 2017
- Happy 49th Birthday! June 12, 2017
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Tag Archives: Parchman
A Dirty Secret
It is a “dirty secret”, known by few, that the American death penalty system is “specifically engineered to ensure that those who are convicted stay convicted, guilty or not.”[i] This is how it works. Death sentences routinely result from poor defense … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, defense attorneys, Fly Manning, Injustice, Mississippi, prosecutor misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged AEDPA, African American, capital defense lawyers, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, Fly Manning, habeas corpus petition, Injustice, Mississippi, October 2017, Parchman, prosecutor misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, Richard North Patterson, torture, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful conviction
Less fortunate than ourselves
It is ten years since Clive Stafford Smith alerted the world to Willie Manning’s appalling plight. Stafford Smith’s article began: “It is a platitude to suggest that as the Christmas season approaches we should consider those less fortunate than ourselves, but … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, death row mental health, death row solitary confinement, Fly Manning, human rights abuse, Injustice, innocence, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, capital punishment, Clive Stafford Smith, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, December 2006, December 2016, Fly Manning, human rights abuses, Injustice, innocence, Mississippi, Mississippi courts, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Multiple, Repeated Hygiene Breaches
The kitchen that provides food for Willie Manning and other Unit 29 inmates in Parchman prison, Mississippi, was closed down from July 24 because of its multiple, repeated hygiene breaches. Among the violations reported were: -Cornbread baked on dirty racks. -Bread … Continue reading
Posted in Death Row, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, prison conditions, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, Death Row, Fly Manning, food hygiene, food safety, Injustice, Marshall Fisher, Mississippi, Mississippi Department of Corrections, Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner, Parchman, prison conditions, prison food, September 2016, torture, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Mississippi Prisoners Malnourished
According to the Mississippi Food Network, one in four Mississippians do not have enough to eat: many therefore use food pantries. Prisoners, however, have no access to these. And according to Margaret Winter, associate director of the ACLU National Prison Project, … Continue reading
Posted in commissary, Death Row, Fly Manning, malnutrition, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, prison commissary, prison conditions, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged ACLU National Prison Project, capital punishment, commissary, death penalty, Death Row, December 2015, Fly Manning, malnutrition, Margaret Winter, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, prison commissary, prison conditions, prisoners' families, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Hope in the Midst of Despair
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
Willie’s Suffering – a Central Election Issue
Rick Halperin was far from circumspect about capital punishment when he spoke on a United Nations panel last week (see video at 19.00). He condemned the death penalty as ‘state sponsored revenge’, ‘physical and psychological terror and torture’, and a symptom … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, America, April 2015, atrocities, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, executions, Fly Manning, human rights violation, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court, Parchman, Presidential election 2016, Rick Halperin, torture, United Nations, US Supreme Court judges, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
A Message from Willie
Dear everyone I must have written you a hundred letters in my mind. Sometimes I just lay here and think of all the things I want to say – but for one reason or another – I always find it … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishment, criminal justice USA, death penalty, Death Row, Fly Manning, Injustice, Mississippi, Mississippi judicial system, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Mississippi Supreme Court, Oktibbeha County, Parchman, post conviction review, prison conditions, solitary confinement, USA injustice, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged 2014, African American, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, December 2014, execution, Fly Manning, Injustice, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Oktibbeha County, Parchman, prison conditions, prisoners' mental health, solitary confinement, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful conviction
Another Astonishing Ruling
On March 2, Willie Manning submitted a post-hearing memorandum challenging the constitutional validity of his convictions for the murders of two elderly ladies at their apartment in Brooksville Garden in 1993. This is the second of Willie’s two cases, and … Continue reading
Posted in African American, America, Brookville Gardens murders, capital murder, convicted, conviction, Death, death penalty, Death Row, Death Row injustice,, double murders, Exculpatory evidence, execution, Fly Manning, Injustice, Innocent, jailhouse informant, justice, justice for Willie Manning, Justice4Willie, Manning, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary Parchman, murders, Oktibbeha County, Parchman, prosecutors presented false evidence, prosecutors withheld evidence, United States of America, unreliable witnesses, USA, Willie Fly Manning, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, Willie Manning murders
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Execution date announced
Shockingly, a May 7 execution date has been set for Willie Jerome Manning by the Mississippi State Court, despite the very serious issues that are unresolved across both his cases (which were held in the same area, with the same prosecutor). Incredibly, the … Continue reading
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