Evidence challenged: Mississippi court blocks execution

By Jack Elliott

Published May 7, 2013 4:00am ET

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Evidence challenged: Mississippi court blocks execution — This is a Sept. 16, 2010 Mississippi Department of Corrections provided photograph of death row inmate Willie Jerome Manning, taken at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, Miss., who is scheduled to die by lethal injection, Tuesday, May 7. State Attorney General Jim Hood says a new round of DNA testing on evidence collected against Manning will not exonerate him in the 1992 deaths of two students. (AP Photo/Mississippi Department of Corrections) | AP

PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court has indefinitely delayed Tuesday’s scheduled execution of Willie Jerome Manning amid questions involving evidence in the case, intervening hours before he was set to die for the slayings of two college students.

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