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PARCHMAN, Miss. — Willie Jerome Manning, who was convicted of murdering two people and was recently denied a DNA test that could have exonerated him and saved his life, is scheduled to die by lethal injection in Mississippi on Tuesday.
Manning, 44, was found guilty of killing two college students in 1992. But according to Dov Fox, an academic fellow at the Georgetown University Law Center, there was never any physical evidence linking him to the crime. The FBI has also recently acknowledged that the forensics evidence used to convict Manning was flawed.
The DNA test therefore represented an important chance for Manning to potentially prove he was not guilty, as he has always maintained.
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