Curtis Flowers, US man wrongfully imprisoned for 22 years, dies aged 56
Flowers, tried six times over 1996 murders of four people, faced execution before supreme court tossed his conviction
TL;DR
- Curtis Flowers, who was imprisoned for over 22 years and faced execution, has died at 56.
- He was arrested in 1996 for the shooting deaths of four people inside a furniture store in Winona, Mississippi.
- Flowers was tried six times for the murders, with his conviction and death sentence being overturned by the US Supreme Court in 2019.
- The Supreme Court cited the discriminatory exclusion of Black prospective jurors as a reason for the unfair trial.
- Charges against Flowers were dropped in September 2020, and he was released from prison.
- His family confirmed his death on Wednesday at his home in Mississippi.