Willie Manning faces an imminent and short-notice execution date in Mississippi for the 1992 murders of Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller. Manning has always maintained his innocence.  

No date is set yet, but the Mississippi Attorney General has requested that a date be set to execute Mr. Manning as soon as his current legal pleadings are dismissed (assuming they are actually dismissed).

The following information is from Willie's web page, Justice4Willie.com.

"Willie is appealing against a conviction and two death sentences for the murder of two students, Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller. In 2013 Willie was granted his request, first made in 2001, to have DNA testing and fingerprint comparison performed on items related to this case. Preliminary DNA testing on items found at the crime scene has been completed.

Willie has requested additional, specialist testing on hairs vacuumed from Tiffany Miller’s car; his request has been denied by two courts. The circuit court’s decision included the surprising declaration that these hairs were irrelevant to the outcome of Willie’s case – despite them having been admitted as state evidence at his trial.

Fingerprint evidence from the crime scene and from a car linked by the State to the murders has been examined and found to have no matches in FBI databases."

This petition will be updated as more information becomes available.

Mississippi's plans to carry out more executions mark the state as an outlier in national use of the death penalty. The vast majority of states with capital punishment continue on a downward trend of executions, with only a handful of (almost exclusively Southern) states having had carried out executions in the last few years. Mississippi is going against evolving standards of decency and human rights by scheduling an execution date.  

Please sign the petition asking Governor Reeves to do everything within his power to stop this execution, including issuing a stay, and seeking a path to clemency in the case.