Mississippi Justice Fails Exonerated | Jackson News

Mississippi’s justice system has seen a shocking pattern of wrongful convictions fueled by junk science—especially bite-mark analysis—that sent innocent people to death row and beyond. Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks spent years behind bars for a toddler’s murder, convicted on evidence that turned out to be from pond critters; the real killer later confessed. Eddie Lee Howard Jr., convicted in 1994 on the same flawed bite-mark testimony, wasn’t exonerated until 2020 after Mississippi’s Supreme Court finally called it junk science. Sabrina Butler, the only woman on death row in 1990, was freed after a new trial revealed injuries might’ve come from medical care—not murder. Willie Manning, convicted of double homicide in 1996, got a second chance after prosecutors hid a key witness’s lie. These cases expose how devastatingly wrong the system can go when faulty evidence is trusted—and why reliable proof matters more than ever. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/269ae3239afd9a62