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Curtis Flowers, freed after six trials and a Supreme Court reversal, dies at 56
October 8, 2026
ABC News and NBC News report that flowers filed a lawsuit in 2021 against Evans and three investigators who worked with the district attorney.
Defendant Curtis Flowers, center, stands with his attorneys Henderson Hill, left, and Rob McDuff at his bail hearing in Winona, Miss., on December 16, 2019, cbc.ca, and nypost.com report.
Curtis Flowers, flanked by sister Priscilla Ward, right, exits the Winston Choctaw Regional Correctional Facility in Louisville, Miss., on December 16, 2019, after the US Supreme Court threw out his conviction, cbc.ca, and nypost.com report.
Flowers was 26 when he was arrested several months after the July 1996 shooting deaths of four people inside a furniture store in Winona, Mississippi, ABC News, The Guardian, NBC News, cbc.ca, and nypost.com report. ABC News and NBC News report that flowers filed a lawsuit in 2021 against Evans and three investigators who worked with the district attorney.
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The New York Times reports that 61 of the 72 jurors were white.
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- ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos — Curtis Flowers, a Black man whose death sentence was tossed by Supreme Court, dies in Mississippi
- CBS News — Curtis Flowers | 60 Minutes Archive
- The Guardian — Curtis Flowers, US man wrongfully imprisoned for 22 years, dies aged 56
- The New York Times — Curtis Flowers Has Died at 56. His Case Became a Symbol of Racial Bias. - The New York Times
- nypost.com — Curtis Flowers, Mississippi man whose death sentence was tossed by Supreme Court, dies at age 56
- cbc.ca — Curtis Flowers, Black man whose conviction was thrown out after 22 years in U.S. prison, dead at 56 | CBC News
- nbcnews.com — Curtis Flowers, a Black man whose death sentence was tossed by Supreme Court, dies in Mississippi
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