Curtis Flowers, Mississippi man wrongfully convicted after being tried for the same killings 6 times, dies at 56

Key Points:

• Curtis Flowers, a Black man from Mississippi who was tried six times for the same crime by the same prosecutor and wrongfully convicted multiple times, has died at age 56 at his home in Winona, Mississippi.
• Flowers was accused of a 1996 quadruple murder at a furniture store where he briefly worked, but there was no physical evidence linking him to the crime, and his initial conviction by an all-White jury was overturned due to prosecutorial misconduct and racial discrimination in jury selection.
• District Attorney Doug Evans prosecuted Flowers in all six trials, securing convictions in four, but multiple appeals revealed Evans' pattern of excluding Black jurors, leading to the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Flowers' conviction in 2019 for violating constitutional rights.
• After spending over two decades in prison, Flowers was released on bail in 2019 following the Supreme Court ruling, with his case drawing national attention through investigative reporting by American Public Media's podcast "In the Dark," which helped expose flaws in the prosecution's case.
• No cause of death has been disclosed, and Flowers' legal team confirmed his passing, marking the end of a landmark case highlighting systemic racial injustices in the American legal system.