Death row inmate Willie Jerome Manning gets reprieve
Source: The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
The Mississippi Supreme Court has indefinitely delayed Tuesday evening's planned execution of Willie Jerome Manning, who was scheduled to die for the 1992 slayings of two college students.
Manning was originally scheduled to receive a lethal injection at 6 p.m. CDT at the state prison in Parchman. But as the execution time loomed, the high court said the execution should be delayed until it rules further on the case.
The bodies of Mississippi State University students Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller were found in rural Oktibbeha County in December 1992. They had been shot to death. Manning was convicted in 1994. Prosecutors said Manning was arrested after he tried to sell some items belonging to the victims.
The FBI has said in recent days that there were errors in agents' testimony about ballistics tests and hair analysis in the case.
Read more: http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20130507/NEWS/130507027/Death-row-inmate-Willie-Jerome-Manning-gets-reprieve
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from the article:
"The high court voted eight to one, with Justice Mike Randolph objecting."
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"Randolph, in his written objection to the stay, said Manning’s defense has had years to deal with hair and ballistics evidence and that the issues were dealt with “in a long string of litigation in state and federal courts.”
Randolph also strongly criticized the DOJ for working with the Innocence Project and National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in their evaluations.
“I should not be surprised,” Randolph wrote, “given that the families of victims of the clandestine ‘Fast and Furious’ gun running operation can’t get the Department of Justice to identify the decision makers (whose actions resulted in the death of a border agent and many others) after years of inquiry, and that this is the same Department of Justice that grants and enforces Miranda warnings to foreign enemy combatants.”
You have got to be fucking shitting me......
Let me explain some thing to you Mr. Randolph (aka "asshat in a robe"
the DOJ gets involved when they feel they have a legitimate case
