State prosecutors want execution date set for Willie “Fly” Manning

MISSISSIPPI (WCBI) – State prosecutors want an execution date set for Willie “Fly” Manning.

Attorney General Lynn Fitch asked the state Supreme Court to lift the stay of execution.

Attorneys also asked to have an execution date set within 30 days.

This move comes after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request from Manning to have DNA evidence retested.

Manning was convicted on two counts of capital murder in 1994.

He killed Mississippi State students Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller on Pat Station Road in Oktibbeha County.

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