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Recent News:
- The Puzzle of the Hair Fragments May 10, 2020
- COVID-19 April 25, 2020
- 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
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Tag Archives: Willie Jerome Manning
The Puzzle of the Hair Fragments
At Willie Manning’s trial, an FBI hair expert testified about hair fragments vacuumed from Tiffany Miller’s car. The expert stated that the hair was African American (an assertion that the FBI and DOJ discredited in 2013). With no physical evidence … Continue reading
Posted in DNA testing, forensic hair testimony, hair testimony, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, Bode Technology, DNA testing, flawed forensics, Fly Manning, hair testimony, Injustice, Judge Lee Howard, May 2020, Mississippi, MitoTyping Technologies, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful conviction
COVID-19
Staying inside a tiny prison cell all day, every day, day after day is not easy. Willie Manning likes taking advantage of the little opportunity he gets to go outside for restricted exercise, where he may also find solace in … Continue reading
Posted in corona virus, COVID-19,, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged April 2020, corona virus, Death Row, Fly Manning, hand washing, isolation, Mississippi, Mississippi Department of Corrections, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, soap, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, Yo Gotti
The Suffering of Parchman’s Death Row
18 inmates have died in Mississippi prisons since December 29, some as a result of violence. 10 of the deaths were at the state penitentiary at Parchman, where Willie Manning is incarcerated. State law requires death row to remain at … Continue reading
Posted in African American, Death Row, Mississippi, prison conditions, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, February 2020, Fly Manning, Governor Tate Reed, Mississippi, Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner, Parchman, Pelicia Hall, prison conditions, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Twenty-Five Years on Death Row
Today, November 10, 2019, marks 25 years since Willie Manning first entered death row. A jury had found him guilty of murdering Tiffany Miller and Jon Steckler, despite no physical evidence linking him to the murders. Two years later Willie … Continue reading
Posted in criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, fingerprint analysis, Fly Manning, Forrest Allgood, Jon Steckler, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Mississippi Supreme Court, November 2019, Tiffany Miller, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
A Trail of Hidden Victims
A former commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections has spoken out against the terrible impact of capital punishment on prison staff. Allen L. Ault was responding to this summer’s announcement that the federal death penalty will be resumed after a … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, correctional staff, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged Allen L. Ault, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, executions, federal death penalty, Fly Manning, Mississippi, Mississippi Department of Corrections, Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner, Mississippi State Penitentiary, post traumatic stress disorder, September 2019, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Sickness and Deaths
Willie Manning’s prison, Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, is inspected annually; failures in safety and health obligations are then uncovered. Several times previously we have noted the problems at the prison.* This year is no different: an inspection in June … Continue reading
Posted in Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, prison conditions, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged August 2019, capital punishment, Cliff Johnson, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, Fly Manning, health, MacArthur Justice Center, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, prison conditions, Ron Welch, safety, sanitation, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Racially Motivated Manipulation
Curtis Flowers is an African American man incarcerated alongside Willie Manning on Mississippi’s death row. The way the legal system has operated in Flowers’ case has been described as “nothing more than one human being tormenting another because he can.” … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, Curtis Flowers, death penalty, jurors, prosecutor misconduct, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, black jurors, capital punishment, criminal justice, Curtis Flowers, death penalty, Doug Evans, Fly Manning, July 2019, juror strikes, jurors, Mississippi, prosecutor misconduct, racial discrimination, skepticism, US Supreme Court, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, Winona
The US Supreme Court’s Exceptional Barbarity
While we were celebrating the resumption of DNA testing for Willie Manning, the US Supreme Court was shunting the American death penalty into new, shocking levels of brutality. The opinion is described by various legal analysts as “bloodthirsty and cruel”, … Continue reading
Posted in Bucklew v. Precythe, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty unconstitutionality, executions, US Supreme Court, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged Bucklew v. Precythe, capital punishment, death penalty, Eighth Amendment, executions, Fly Manning, Garrett Epps, intellectual disability, juveniles, lethal injection drugs, Matt Ford, May 2019, Missouri, nitrogen hypoxia, Russell Bucklew, US Supreme Court, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
DNA Testing Resumes
It seems that Judge Howard’s Scheduling Order, issued in February, is working! Willie Manning must be relieved that more hairs from his case are at last being screened at the Bode Technology lab. The lab anticipates that this stage of the … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, DNA testing, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, April 2019, Bode Technology, capital punishment, death penalty, DNA testing, Fly Manning, forensics, hair evidence, Judge Howard, Mississippi, Oktibbeha County, Scheduling Order, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Conservatives Opposing the Death Penalty
A Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) seems an unlikely setting for action against the US death penalty: conservatives have hitherto been associated with an unthinking “tough on crime” philosophy that included support for capital punishment. Perhaps all this is set … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, conservatives, criminal justice, death penalty, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged capital punishment, Conservative Political Action Conference, conservatives, Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty, CPAC, criminal justice, death penalty, death penalty opposition, Fly Manning, Hannah Cox, limiting government, March 2019, Mississippi, Republicans, sanctityof human life, tax dollars, tough on crime, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
