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The Connection with Lynchings
The Movement for Black Lives’ new policy platform is clear about the death penalty’s racism: “The death penalty in the U.S. was designed to bring lynching into the courtroom and has targeted Blacks and other people of color and poor … Continue reading
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Shadows from the Confederate Flag
The race war craved by Dylann Roof has so far erupted only with words and petitions, not with violence. Roof, charged with shooting dead nine African American people in Charleston, South Carolina, faced their relatives last week; incredibly their words, spoken … Continue reading
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I Can’t Breathe
On recent letters from Willie Jerome Manning the envelopes have carried a message from him: “I can’t breathe”. These, the repeated last words of Eric Garner, a Staten Island man killed in July in a police chokehold, have become a … Continue reading
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The Bias of White Americans
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
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Danger of Gross Unfairness
Willie Jerome Manning has opposed the State’s request for more time to file its response to his appeal in the 1993 case of two elderly ladies (the Brookville Garden case). He asks the Mississippi Supreme Court to strike any brief filed … Continue reading
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Paying Attention to Fingerprints
On November 10, Willie Jerome Manning completed 19 years on Mississippi death row. Two days earlier, Kash Delano Register was released after spending 34 years in prison in California for a murder that he did not commit, after a witness admitted … Continue reading
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Back from the Precipice
Last week, an article appeared in The Root reminding us of Willie Manning’s brush with death in May. The article is headlined “The Death Penalty: How Long Will It Survive?” It goes so far as to say: “In some ways, what’s … Continue reading
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Threat of execution remains
Although the execution date requested by the State Attorney General’s office has now passed, the threat of execution has not been lifted for Willie. He is still waiting to hear whether the arguments that he has put forward have been … Continue reading
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Local NAACP group highlighted racism
In 1994 the Oktibbeha County branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) organized a march in support of Willie Manning. They expressed their belief that racism had played a part in securing Willie’s conviction for … Continue reading
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