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    In today's United States Supreme Court orders, Manning's petition for a writ of certiorari was DENIED.

    Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Case Nos.: (10-70008)
    Decision Date: July 17, 2012
    Rehearing Denied: September 4, 2012

    Expect an execution date request today or tomorrow.
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    Manning denied appeal by US Supreme Court

    The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Mississippi death row inmate Willie Jerome Manning.

    Manning asked U.S. Supreme Court in December to listen to his arguments for a new trial. The court declined Monday without comment.

    Manning had argued that defense attorneys should have done a better job and that black residents were inappropriately excluded from his Oktibbeha County jury. Manning is African-American.

    The 5th Circuit said under state law, Manning had until April 5, 2000, to file a post-conviction petition. Court records show Manning did not file anything with the Mississippi Supreme Court until Oct. 8, 2001.

    Manning, now 44, received two death sentences for the 1992 slayings of two Mississippi State University students, Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller.

    On Dec. 11, 1992, the bodies of Miller and Steckler were discovered in rural Oktibbeha County. Both students had been shot to death, and Miller's car was missing. The vehicle was found the next morning.

    Prosecutors said Manning was arrested after he attempted to sell certain items belonging to the victims.

    Attorney General Jim Hood had said he will ask for an execution date to be set if the U.S. Supreme Court denies the request.

    However, Manning has another appeal pending in Oktibbeha County Circuit Court in a separate death penalty case.

    Last month, the Mississippi Supreme Court asked an Oktibbeha County judge to explain why no ruling has been issue on a post-conviction petition filed by Manning in a case involving the deaths of two women.

    Manning was convicted in 1996 for the killings of Emmoline Jimmerson, 90, and Alberta Jordan, about 60, in Starkville. The women were beaten and their throats slashed during a robbery attempt in 1993. The Supreme Court upheld his two death sentences in 2000.

    In 2004, the Mississippi court said Manning could pursue a PCR on whether prosecutors withheld certain evidence, whether prosecutors presented false evidence and whether Manning was denied effective assistance of counsel both at trial and on appeal.

    The Oktibbeha court held a hearing in January of 2011.

    http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/M...#ixzz2OYxO92gt
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    Hood seeks execution date for death row inmate

    The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Mississippi death row inmate Willie Jerome Manning.

    Manning asked the U.S. Supreme Court in December to listen to his arguments for a new trial. The court declined Monday without comment.

    Attorney General Jim Hood later Monday asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to set an execution date for Manning. In his motion, Hood asked the court to set the date of execution for April 24.

    Manning had argued that defense attorneys should have done a better job and that black residents were inappropriately excluded from his Oktibbeha County jury. Manning is African-American.

    The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals turned Manning down last July.

    Manning, now 44, received two death sentences for the 1992 slayings of two Mississippi State University students, Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller. In December of 1992, the bodies of Miller and Steckler were discovered in rural Oktibbeha County. Both students had been shot to death.

    http://www.wapt.com/news/mississippi...#ixzz2OaAFCm3b

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    Manning opposes setting of execution date

    Willie Jerome Manning has told the Mississippi Supreme Court that he has more arguments to make so now is not the time to be setting an execution date sought by the attorney general's office.

    Manning was recently denied an appeal by the U.S. Supreme Court in the deaths of 2 college students. The attorney general's office asked the Mississippi court to set the date of execution for April 24.

    In a brief filed Monday, Manning's attorney said there are issues pending before the Mississippi court in which Manning seeks a new trial; among them are arguments that a jailhouse informant had recanted his testimony and Manning's trial attorney was ineffective and that blacks were improperly kept off his trial jury.

    The attorney general's office has not yet filed a response.

    http://www.wjtv.com/story/21865202/m...execution-date
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    Willie Jerome Manning next in line on death row

    Willie Jerome Manning could become Mississippi’s next convicted murderer to be executed, if his further appeals are not effective.

    Manning is accused in two sets of murders, although this death sentence is for only the 1992 fatal shootings of two Mississippi State University students, Pamela Tiffany Miller, 23, of Madison and Jon Stephen Steckler, 19, of Natchez.

    He also was convicted in another double murder, but a trial judge delayed a decision on appeals issues until late June.

    The state Attorney General’s Office recently asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to set Manning’s execution date after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider his case.

    But earlier this week, Manning’s legal team told the appeals court he has more arguments to make, so it’s not the time to set a date for him to die.

    In a brief filed Monday, the attorneys say among their issues are arguments that a jailhouse informant recanted his testimony, that Manning’s trial attorney was ineffective and that blacks were improperly kept off his trial jury. Manning is black and the two students he was convicted of murdering were white.

    Behind the scenes, defense teams also analyze their chances from Gov. Phil Bryant for a pardon or clemency, which could be a non-death sentence, although Bryant has shown little sympathy with other such pleas that yet have come his way.

    Manning’s attorneys continue to insist he should not be executed without DNA testing or fingerprinting of case evidence, which might prove his innocence.

    When the Miller-Steckler murders were investigated in 1993, DNA testing like this was not available. None of the fingerprints in the victim’s car matched Manning or any other suspect.

    His defenders contend that the “real” murderer could be identified by today’s testing methods and larger fingerprint systems.

    “The state did not produce any physical evidence linking Manning to the crime,” his latest state appeal states.

    APPEALS LENGTHY

    Manning is one of Mississippi’s 48 prisoners on Death Row for murder, some with other associated crimes. Two are women. Thirteen are Northeast Mississippi cases.

    If 45-year-old Manning’s new appeal efforts fail, he will be the next bound for the lethal-injection gurney.

    He is the region’s long-serving Death Row inmate.

    One regional death sentence, though, was reversed by a Mississippi Supreme Court, saying Kristi Leigh Fulgham’s trial judge was wrong not to allow a social worker’s testimony that could have provided favorable information to her jury.

    Fulgham, 36, was convicted in 2005 of the shooting death and robbery of her husband, Joey, in their Oktibbeha County home. But her trial judge changed the sentence to life without parole after Joey Fulgham’s family declined to press for a second trial.

    There’s no typical length of time that prisoners await their sentences. Some appeals are extensive and some are not.

    Part of the deliberate appeals process is the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision requiring lower courts to take extra care with death-sentence cases in which the convicted person claims mental problems or defects.

    Mack Arthur King, 53, convicted of murder in Lowndes County, will leave Death Row soon because of a federal court decision accepting psychological findings that he is mentally retarded and legally cannot be put to death.

    Two other convictions with death sentences are fairly new for regional murders – Caleb Carrothers of Lafayette County and David Cox of Union County.

    Carrothers was sentenced to death in May 20, 2011 for the Lafayette County gunshot murders of Frank Clark and his son, Taylor.

    After a highly publicized, week-long sentence hearing in New Albany, Cox was sentenced to death plus 185 years for the shooting death of his wife, Kim, and the repeated sexual assault of a younger woman during the crime and other offenses.

    In the Union County case of Marlon Howell, an evidentiary hearing is set for next week in circuit court to consider certain appeal issues.

    Howell, now 33, was convicted in 2001 of the capital murder of newspaper carrier, David Parnell.

    Three years ago, Mississippi had 59 inmates on Death Row.

    15 EXECUTIONS SINCE 2004

    Nine people were executed during Gov. Haley Barbour’s two terms in office. Since Gov. Bryant took office in 2012, six have been executed.

    Other regional-case inmates on Death Row, by date of their convictions, are:

    • Anthony Carr, 47. Convicted in 1990 of the Quitman County murders of Charlotte, Carl, Gregory and Bobbie Jo Parker in Clarksdale. The trial was moved to Alcorn County.

    • Charles Ray Crawford, 47. Convicted in 1994 of murder in Lafayette County. He also had convictions on aggravated assault there and rape in Chickasaw County from 1993. This case was moved from Tippah County, where Crawford kidnapped, assaulted and then killed college student Kristy Ray.

    • Thomas E. Loden, 48. Convicted in 2001 of the capital murder, rape and sexual battery of 16-year-old Leesa Marie Gray in Itawamba County.

    • Quintez Hodges, 32. Convicted in 2001 of the Lowndes County shooting death of Isaac Johnson, kidnapping his girlfriend and her baby, then driving them to Alabama where the woman said he raped her.

    • Michelle Byrom, 56. Convicted in 2002 in Tishomingo County for the capital murder of her husband of 20 years and for recruiting her son in the plot.

    • Derrick Deo Walker, 32. Convicted in 2003 for the capital murder of Tupelo city personnel director Charles Richardson and a residence arson in Lee County.

    • William Matthew Wilson, 32. Convicted in 2007 of the capital murder and child abuse of his girlfriend’s daughter, 2-year-old Mallory Conlee.

    • Bobby L. Batiste, 33. Convicted in 2010 for the capital murder of his MSU roommate, Andreas Galanis, in Oktibbeha County.

    All these cases are on various stages of appeal.

    A spokesman for the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office says it’s not clear who may come up for execution after some resolution of the Manning appeals

    http://djournal.com/view/full_story/...e_news_bullets
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    What is the issue here in setting the X date?

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    State Supreme Court sets May 7 for Manning execution

    A May 7 execution by lethal injection was set today for Death Row inmate Willie Jerome Manning.

    He was convicted in the murders of two Mississippi State students in Oktibbeha County.

    On March 25, the U.S. Supreme Court denied his petition to review his case, then the Mississippi Attorney General's Office asked the state's highest court to re-set his execution.

    Manning's attorneys insist he is entitled to DNA and other forensic testing. He also asserts that one of the state's witnesses has changed his trial testimony.

    Today's order denying that request was written by Justice Michael Randolph and supported by Chief Justice William Waller Jr., and justices Randy Pierce, Ann Lamar and Josiah Coleman.

    Voting to grant the tests were justices Jess Dickinson, Jim Kitchens, David Chandler and Leroy King.

    All the justices agreed to deny his claims of ineffective counsel and witness recantation.

    The minority-vote judges also signed on two two separate objections.

    The majority writes that Manning's conviction and sentenced "were based on substantially more evidence than he now challenges."

    "Our examination anew of the record reveals that conclusive, overwhelming evidence of guilt was presented to the jury," the order states.

    Manning, now 44, received two death sentences for the 1992 slaying of MSU students, Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller.

    On Dec. 11, 1992, their bodies were discovered in rural Oktibbeha County. Both had been shot to death and Miller's car was missing. The vehicle was found the next morning.

    Prosecutors said Manning was arrested after he attempted to sell certain items belonging to the victims.

    In the minority objection, Justice King said he would grant Manning the fingerprint and DNA testing, as well as consideration of whether race wrongly was used as a jury selection factor.
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    Well then they must have seen my post asking what the hell was taking so long

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    Miss. death row inmate's effort to use DNA testing draws support

    Two organizations that help exonerate inmates using DNA evidence have asked the state Supreme Court to let them file briefs to support Willie Jerome Manning's effort to avoid execution in May 7.

    Attorneys for Manning asked the court Tuesday to stop the execution. They also said they will file a clemency petition with Gov. Phil Bryant.

    Manning was handed two death sentences for the slayings of Mississippi State University students Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller, whose bodies were discovered in rural Oktibbeha County on Dec. 11, 1992. Each was shot to death, and Miller's car was missing. The vehicle was found the next morning.

    Prosecutors said Manning was arrested after he tried to sell some items belonging to the victims.

    On Friday, Manning, now 44, asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its 5-4 denial of DNA testing that he argues will prove he is innocent.

    The Supreme Court has not yet ruled on the motions.

    In their motion, the Mississippi Innocence Project and Innocence Project New Orleans said Manning's appeal is "exactly the kind of case where DNA testing could prove innocence or guilt."

    "Just because it's hard to imagine a scenario where DNA testing could exonerate Willie Manning, doesn't mean there isn't one," the groups wrote.

    Last week, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against Manning's request for DNA testing. The majority said there was substantial evidence to convict Manning.

    "Manning fails to demonstrate a reasonable probability that he would not have been convicted or would have received a lesser sentence if favorable results had been obtained through such forensic DNA testing at the time of the original prosecution," the majority said.

    Four other justices sided with Manning, saying the DNA testing, if favorable to Manning, would raise questions about his guilt.

    In his motion to stay the execution, Manning said a delay would allow time to reconsider the issue both he and the two groups have raised and which the Supreme Court appeared deeply divided.

    http://www.clarionledger.com/viewart...draws-support-
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    Mississippi Denies Manning's Death Appeal

    The state of Mississippi is moving closer to carrying out the first execution of 2013.

    The Mississippi State Supreme Court denied today Willie Jerome Manning's requests for a rehearing and a stay of execution. Manning wants DNA tests that were not available at the time of his conviction in the early 1990s. Manning received the death penalty for the December 1992 killings of two Mississippi State University students, Tiffany Miller and Jon Steckler.

    Manning has maintained his innocence. This Mississippi Innocence Project filed a brief in support of Manning. Innocence Projects usually don't get involved with cases that lack compelling evidence of innocence. Of the seven people Innocence Project helped exonerate, six of them were freed because their DNA was absent from the scene of the crime, the brief states.

    In addition to the DNA request, Manning's attorney said one of the prosecution's jury-selection tactics in Manning's trial was discriminatory. Voisin said some candidates listed publications such as Jet and Ebony magazines on a jury questionnaire. Prosecutors dismissed some of the potentials because they read liberal publications.

    In 2012, Mississippi tied with Arizona and Oklahoma for second-most executions carried out in the United States, with six in each state. Texas led the nation with 15 executions in 2012. Manning is scheduled to be executed May 7 at Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman.

    http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/webl...-death-appeal/
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