Ivy Ray Thornton - Mississippi's Best Community Newspaper

Ivy Ray Thornton - Mississippi's Best Community Newspaper

Dec. 21, 1936 – Nov. 29, 2023 NATCHEZ – Services for Ivy Ray Thornton, 86, of Natchez who died Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, in Natchez will be at 1 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, at Washington Baptist Church with Bro. Carl Smith officiating. Burial will follow at the Taylor Cemetery under the direction of Laird Funeral Home. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until 1:00 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, at Washington Baptist Church. Mr. Thornton was born o…

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 - Mississippi Monitor

by Mina Corpuz, Mississippi Today November 27, 2023 The bed where Mississippi prisoners are currently put to death using lethal injection. Court challenges have halted executions in Mississippi and other states in recent years. 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 recant…