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MDOC makes another unexplained leadership shift
By MINA CORPUZ - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,12/07/23-1:38PM , 407 Reads 4,452 Statewide
The superintendent of the newly renamed women’s prison at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility was removed from her position this week.
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Supreme Court puts a hold on Willie Jerome Manning execution date
By MINA CORPUZ - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Tue,12/05/23-1:38PM , 299 Reads 4,682 Statewide
Weeks after the state asked to set an execution date for Willie Jerome Manning, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled Thursday that it will not schedule one until it considers his petition for post-conviction relief.
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This April 2, 2019, photo provided by the Mississippi Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Willie Jerome Manning. Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch has asked the state Supreme Court court to set execution dates for two men on death row, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. (Mississippi Department of Corrections via AP)

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Man on death row still says he’s innocent
By MINA CORPUZ - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Wed,11/29/23-2:00AM , 955 Reads
As the state seeks to set his execution date, Willie Jerome Manning continues to maintain his innocence, challenging a double-murder conviction that his attorneys say was based on unreliable evidence, including the recanted word of a jailhouse informant and forensics the Justice Department deemed faulty.
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Willie Jerome Manning is ‘sentenced to die for a crime he did not commit,’ his attorneys say, as they fight state efforts to set an execution date
By MINA CORPUZ - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Mon,11/27/23-5:50PM , 681 Reads 5,939 Statewide
As the state seeks to set his execution date, Willie Jerome Manning continues to maintain his innocence, challenging a double-murder conviction that his attorneys say was based on unreliable evidence, including the recanted word of a jailhouse informant and forensics the Justice Department deemed faulty.
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