Curtis Flowers

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Curtis Giovanni Flowers (May 29, 1970 – October 7, 2026) was an American man who was wrongly imprisoned and on death row for more than twenty-two years, during which he was tried for the same murders six separate times by the same prosecutor in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Four of these trials had resulted in convictions, all of which were overturned on appeal for repeated prosecutorial misconduct. Flowers was accused of committing the July 16, 1996, shootings of four people inside Tardy Furniture store in Winona, Mississippi, United States. Flowers was first convicted in 1997; in five of the six trials, the prosecutor, Montgomery County District Attorney Doug Evans, sought the death penalty against Flowers. As a result, Flowers was held on death row at the Parchman division of Mississippi State Penitentiary for more than 20 years. In his first trial, Flowers was convicted of the aggravated murder and robbery of the store owner. This verdict and a conviction in a second trial for the...

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