Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: Curtis Flowers, US man wrongfully imprisoned for 22 years, dies aged 56
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Source: theguardian.com
<p>Flowers, tried six times over 1996 murders of four people, faced execution before supreme court tossed his conviction</p><p>Curtis Flowers, a Black man who spent more than 22 years in prison and was on death row in Mississippi before the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-supreme-court" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">US supreme court</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/jun/22/curtis-flowers-conviction-supreme-court-removal-of-black-jurors" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">threw out</a> his conviction and death sentence, has died. He was 56.</p><p>Flowers’ family confirmed that he died on Wednesday at his home in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/mississippi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Mississippi</a>, attorney Rob McDuff told the Associated Press on Thursday.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/08/curtis-flowers-wrongful-conviction-mississippi-dead" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>
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