Curtis Flowers, Black man whose conviction was thrown out after 22 years in U.S. prison, dead at 56
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.
Curtis Flowers, a Black man from Mississippi, has passed away at the age of 56. Flowers was wrongfully convicted multiple times for the same crime, facing six trials by the same prosecutor. He died on Wednesday at his home in Winona, Mississippi, as confirmed by his attorney, Rob McDuff. No cause of death was disclosed. Flowers' legal battle started in Winona, Mississippi, in 1996, when a shooting occurred, and he was questioned by police but not arrested.
He later moved to Texas and was arrested in January 1997, with no prior criminal record. McDuff, Flowers' attorney, described his case as unprecedented, highlighting the prosecutor's misrepresentation of evidence, discriminatory jury selection, and lack of evidence linking Flowers to the crime. Flowers was initially sentenced to death in the first trial, but his conviction was overturned three times.
The U.S. Supreme Court eventually ruled in his favor in 2019, overturning his conviction once again.
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