A Mississippi prisoner has won a last-minute stay of execution just hours before he was scheduled to die. On Tuesday, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled eight to one in favor of a reprieve for Willie Jerome Manning. The case attracted national attention after the FBI admitted its testimony and original analysis of the evidence in Manning’s case contained errors. But prosecutors and state courts had refused to allow any new DNA tests. Manning, an African American, was convicted of murdering Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller, two white college students, in 1992. His attorneys argue no physical evidence ties him to the murders and that testing hair samples and other evidence could identify a different killer. The court did not specify a reason for granting Manning a stay, but the ruling has raised hopes the testing will finally be allowed. In a statement, the Innocence Project said: “Hopefully, Manning, who has spent 20 years on death row maintaining his innocence … will now have the opportunity to do DNA testing that could prove [it].”