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Tag Archives: Radley Balko
“This System’s all a Lie”
Steven Hayne was the medical examiner at Willie Manning’s trial and at many others in Mississippi; he was unqualified and scandalously incompetent (see here and here). A book just published, “The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Fly Manning, Injustice, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged African American, capital punishment, Civil Rights Movement, classism, criminal justice, death penalty, flawed forensics, Fly Manning, Jim Crow, lynchings, March 2018, Michael West, Mississippi, racism, Radley Balko, Steven Hayne, The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South, Tucker Carrington, USA, When Death Row Speaks, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
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Courts’ Complicity
Steven Hayne testified as a medical examiner at the trials of several people who are now on death row in Mississippi, including Willie Manning and Jeffrey Havard. Hayne was unqualified and scandalously incompetent. In Havard’s case,* Hayne testified that the … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishmant, criminal justice, death penalty, Injustice, Jeffrey Havard, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court, Steven Hayne, Supreme Court of Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged Attorney General jim Hood, August 2017, capital punishment, Chloe Britt, courts' complicity, criminal justice, death penalty, expert witness, Injustice, Jeffrey Harvard, Jim Hood, medical examiner, Mississippi, pathologist, Radley Balko, Steven Hayne, Supreme Court of Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
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Frank Parker: Snitch Testimony
At the trial where Willie Manning was convicted of murdering two students, Frank Parker testified that he had overheard Willie saying he “sold the gun on the street”. Thus Willie was linked to the murders, and specifically to the missing … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, Fly Manning, incentivized witnesses, jailhouse informant, jailhouse snitch, Mississippi, snitch testimony, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged capital punishment, death penalty, Fly Manning, Frank Parker, incentivized witness testimony, jailhouse informant, jailhouse snitches, July 2017, Mississippi, Oktibbeha County, police misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, Radley Balko, Sheriff Dolph Bryan, snitch testimony, Starkville, Texas, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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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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Allgood’s Departure: Good News!
Another year has passed: today it is exactly twenty-one years since Willie Manning first entered death row. This year has been a significant one for Willie. In April charges for his 1993 case were dropped, effectively exonerating him in that … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, Forrest Allgood, Mississippi, prosecutor misconduct, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, Brookville Garden murders, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, elections, FBI hair testimony, Fly Manning, Forrest Allgood, innocence, Kevin Lucious, Mississippi, November 2015, prosecutor misconduct, Radley Balko, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
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A Can of Worms in Mississippi
Radley Balko, writing last month in the Washington Post, describes how the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently turned down a request for post-conviction relief by a man convicted of murder in Mississippi. Tavares Flaggs was convicted largely … Continue reading
Posted in autopsies, capital punishment, coroners, criminal justice USA, death penalty, death penalty injustice, federal courts, flawed testimony, Fly Manning, forensics, Injustice, Jim Hood Attorney General, judges, junk science, Mississippi, Mississippi judicial system, prosecutors, Steven Hayne, USA injustice, Willie Fly Manning, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged 2014, African American, autopsies, autopsies scandal, capital murder, death penalty, federal courts, Injustice, Jim Hood Attorney General, March 2014, medical examiners, Mississippi, Mississippi Innocence Project, National Association of Medical Examiners, prosecutors presented false evidence, Radley Balko, Steven Hayne, Tucker Carrington, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Willie Fly Manning, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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Justice for Willie Manning 