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innocence and the death penalty in 2015

4/6/2016

 
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According to a new report from Amnesty International, Death Sentences and Executions in 2015,there were 51 exonerations of prisoners worldwide under sentence of death in six countries: China (1), Egypt (1), Nigeria (41), Pakistan (at least 21), Taiwan (1), and the USA (6).

In total, 156 prisoners have been exonerated in the USA. In 2015, the exonerated prisoners were:

. Debra Milke (Arizona)

. Anthony Hinton (Alabama) -  Evidence previously
used against him showed that his weapon was not linked to the bullets used in a murder. He had spent nearly 30 years on death row.

. Willie Manning (Mississippi), after the court ruled that the prosecution did not disclose key evidence that could have invalidated a witness’ testimony and proved his innocence. (Read more about Willie Manning's case here).

. Alfred Brown (Texas) - the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned his conviction after it found that
prosecutors had not disclosed phone records that would have supported Alfred Brown’s evidence that he was not at the crime scene at the time of the crime.

. Lawrence Lee (Georgia)
dismissed charges against Lawrence Lee, on the basis that there was not enough evidence to prosecute him.

. Derral Hodgkins (Florida)
the Supreme Court of Florida remitted the case of Derral Hodgkins to the lower courts for acquittal
of murder on the basis that there was not enough evidence to sustain the conviction. He was released in October after the Court refused to reconsider its decision.

The report concludes:

Claims of innocence and evidence of unsafe convictions continued to characterize the use of the death penalty in several other cases throughout the USA in 2015.


Read the Amnesty International report
Read more about ongoing death penalty cases with innocence claims in the USA

WHY DOES THE STATE STILL WANT TO KILL WILLIE JEROME MANNING?

4/29/2015

 
Willie Jerome Manning was recently exonerated in the murders of two Starkville women in 1992. Now, will the discredited science used to convict him in a separate case, in which he has always maintained his innocence, lead to his freedom? READ MORE
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CHARGES EFFECTIVELY DROPPED AGAINST MANNING FOR 1993 HOMICIDE

4/22/2015

 
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April 22, 2015 11:01:03 AM

Prosecutors will not move forward with a new murder trial against Willie Jerome Manning, who previously stood accused of killing two women 22 years ago, court documents show. 

An order effectively dropping the charges was filed Monday in Oktibbeha County Circuit Court after the Mississippi Supreme Court overturned Manning's 1996 conviction and sentencing in February. 

Justices ordered a new trial after determining the state violated Manning's due-process rights "by failing to provide favorable, material evidence." 

Emmoline Jimmerson and her daughter, Alberta Jordan, were found dead at their Brookville Gardens apartment in 1993. Police theorized they were killed during a robbery. 

A jury convicted Manning of the murders three years later, but the state's main witness who testified during the trial, Kevin Lucious, later recanted his statements in a sworn affidavits, the order states. 

Since the material witness changed his story, "the state is unable to meet the burden of its proof," the order states. 

"It's not a matter of if (Manning) did it or didn't do it, it's a matter of how we can't go forward," said district attorney Forrest Allgood. "He was functionally the way we proved our case. There was corroborating evidence, but there were no other witnesses that heard Manning admit (the crime) or go into the apartment." 

Lucious previously told then-Sheriff Dolph Bryan and then-Starkville Police Department Capt. David Lindley that Manning admitted he killed the two victims and provided specific details of the incident. 

An affidavit recanting the claims states Lucious testified "only because he was afraid of being charged with the two murders," that the information he provided was prepared by law enforcement and that Manning never said "he would not have killed the old ladies if he had known the (sic) didn't have money," Monday's order states. 

Lucious also withdrew testimony saying he saw Manning enter the victims' apartment near the time of the murders.  

Manning, 46, remains behind bars at the Mississippi State Penitentiary after he was convicted of two capital murder charges stemming from the 1992 deaths of Mississippi State University students Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller.  

Manning was scheduled for lethal injection two years ago, but the Supreme Court issued a stay before the procedure was executed.  

Lucious is serving two life sentences without parole in Missouri. 

A secretary for attorney Mark Williamson, who is listed as Manning's representative on Monday's order, said counsel would offer no comment.

More on the case of Willie Manning here



SOURCE: ARTICLE BY CARL SMITH FOR THE DISPATCH)

 File: Willie Jerome Manning order
 File: Mississippi Supreme Court's February reversal


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