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The Mississippi Supreme Court has temporarily delayed ruling on whether to set an execution date for a man on death row for capital murder. The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Mississippi Attorney General's motion to lift a stay and set an execution date for Willie Jerome Manning, 55, would be held in abeyance until the Court rules on Manning's petition for post-conviction relief. Manning was convicted in 1994 on two counts of capital murder in the December 1992 killings of Mississippi State University students Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller.

A Mississippi man who has been on death row for nearly 30 years says the attorney general's quest for an execution date is premature.

Republican Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch has requested that the state Supreme Court set execution dates for two death row inmates.

The Mississippi attorney general’s office is calling on the state’s supreme court to set the execution dates for two inmates currently sitting on death row. On Thursday, Attorney General Lynn Fitch urged the high court to schedule a date and time for 55-year-old Willie Jerome Manning and 59-year-old Robert Simon,...