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Curtis Flowers dies at 56 years after exoneration from Mississippi death row
Flowers was tried six times for a 1996 quadruple murder before the Supreme Court threw out his conviction.
The short version
- Curtis Flowers died Wednesday at his home in Winona, Mississippi, at age 56, his attorney confirmed.[CBS News · ABC News]
- He spent more than two decades imprisoned after being tried six times over the 1996 killings of four people at a furniture store.[CBS News · ABC News]
- The U.S. Supreme Court overturned his conviction and death sentence in 2019 due to unconstitutional racial discrimination in jury selection, and Mississippi dropped all charges in 2020.[CBS News · ABC News]
- His legal team did not provide a cause of death.[CBS News · ABC News]
Key facts
- Curtis Flowers died at age 56 on Wednesday at his home in Winona, Mississippi.[CBS News · ABC News]
- Flowers was tried six times in connection with the July 1996 killing of four people at a furniture store in Winona, Mississippi.[CBS News · ABC News]
- The U.S. Supreme Court overturned his conviction and death sentence in 2019 after finding prosecutors unconstitutionally discriminated against Black prospective jurors.[CBS News · ABC News]
- The state of Mississippi formally dropped all charges against Flowers in September 2020.[ABC News]
What remains uncertain
Sources
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- Curtis Flowers, wrongfully convicted man who was on death row, dies at 56CBS News - US
- Curtis Flowers, a Black man whose death sentence was tossed by Supreme Court, diesABC News - US News
- Curtis Flowers, US man wrongfully imprisoned for 22 years, dies aged 56The Guardian - US
- Curtis Flowers, a Black man whose death sentence was tossed by Supreme Court, dies in MississippiAssociated Press