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Curtis Flowers, a Black man whose death sentence was tossed by Supreme Court, dies in Mississippi
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Curtis Flowers, a Black man who spent more than 22 years in prison and was on death row in Mississippi before the U.S. Supreme Court threw out his conviction and death sentence, has died. He was 56. Attorney Rob McDuff tells The Associated Press Thursday that Flowers’ family confirmed he died Wednes…
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Curtis Flowers flanked by sister Priscilla Ward, right, exits the Winston Choctaw Regional Correctional Facility in Louisville, Miss., Monday, Dec. 16, 2019. Flowers' murder conviction was overturned by the U.S.
Flowers sat on death row for 22 years and was given the death penalty for the 1996 killings of four people at his former job, despite there never being any DNA evidence linking him to the crime and the murder weapon was never found.
Curtis Flowers, a Black man who spent more than 22 years in prison and was on death row in Mississippi before the U.S. Supreme Court threw out his conviction and death sentence, has died. He was 56. Attorney Rob McDuff tells The Associated Press Thursday that Flowers’ family confirmed he died Wednes…
Flowers, tried six times over 1996 murders of four people, faced execution before supreme court tossed his conviction Curtis Flowers, a Black man who spent more than 22 years in prison and was on death row in Mississippi before the US supreme court threw out his conviction and death sentence, has di…
Flowers, a Black man whose six trials in the same Mississippi murder case became a national symbol of racial bias in jury selection, saw the Supreme Court reverse his capital conviction in 2019
