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US Death Penalty: Systemic Problems
It is not surprising that public opinion in the USA is increasingly recoiling from the death penalty: the annual Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) report reveals continuing “systemic problems” in its implementation: “As use of the death penalty dwindles, one might … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, DPIC, executions, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged brain damage, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, DPIC, executions, Fly Manning, Injustice, innocence, intellectual disability, January 2018, mental illness, Mississippi, torture, trauma, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
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
A Method of Control
Clive Stafford Smith has played a pivotal role in Willie Manning’s cases, first as Willie’s post-conviction lawyer, and later as publicist for some of the injustices inflicted on him. Last month Stafford Smith joined other death penalty experts in condemning capital … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, Clive Stafford Smith, criminal justice, death penalty, Mississippi, torture, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, August 2017, capital punishment, Clive Stafford Smith, control, death penalty, Death Row, executions, Fly Manning, Injustice, Mississippi, post traumatic stress disorder, post-conviction defense lawyer, racism, torture, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Incarcerated by Fellow Citizens
Those on death row suffer unimaginable torture; the inmates who have been wrongly convicted do so even more. Like kidnap victims, those with wrongful convictions have been seized and held against their will; but, unlike kidnap victims, they are not … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, Mississippi, post traumatic stress disorder, USA, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, February 2017, Florida, Fly Manning, Injustice, innocence, Ireland, meditation, Mississippi, Peter Pringle, post traumatic stress disorder, Professor Gordon Turnbull, Sunny Jacobs, torture, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions, yoga
President Trump
President Obama has misgivings about the application of the death penalty; President Trump will have no such qualms. In 1989 Trump funded full page ads in four New York newspapers, calling for the return of the death penalty. The ads referred … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, Central Park Five, death penalty unconstitutionality, Fly Manning, Mississippi, torture, Trump, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, botched executions, capital punishment, Central Park Five, death penalty, Donald Trump, FDA, Fly Manning, Kevin Richardson, Latino, lethal injection drugs, Mississippi, November 2016, Supreme Court justices, torture, Trump, USA, waterboarding, 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
Extremity of Torture
Richard Glossip came close to execution in Oklahoma twice last month. The first time, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals granted him a stay to allow his lawyers to submit new evidence; but his ensuing appeal was quickly rejected by … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, executions, Richard Glossip, torture, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged capital punishment, Charles Warner, death penalty, Death Row, executions, Fly Manning, human rights abuse, Injustice, innocence, lethal injections, Mississippi, October 2015, Oklahoma, potassium acetate, potassium chloride, Richard Glossip, torture, USA, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Willie’s DNA Profile Requested
Today it is exactly two years – 730 long days – since a mandate from the Mississippi Supreme Court allowed Willie Manning to pursue his request for DNA testing and fingerprint comparison. For Willie the two years must have seemed interminable. … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, DNA profiling, DNA testing, Fly Manning, Mississippi, torture, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, August 2015, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, DNA profiling, DNA testing, forensic evidence, Injustice, Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller, Mississippi, Mississippi Department of Corrections, Mississippi Supreme Court, torture, trauma, USA, Willie Fly Manning, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
