Curtis Flowers, US man wrongfully imprisoned for 22 years, dies aged 56

Flowers, tried six times over 1996 murders of four people, faced execution before supreme court tossed his conviction Curtis Flowers, a Black man who spent more than 22 years in prison and was on death row in Mississippi before the US supreme court threw out his conviction and de

Flowers, tried six times over 1996 murders of four people, faced execution before supreme court tossed his conviction Curtis Flowers, a Black man who spent more than 22 years in prison and was on death row in Mississippi before the US supreme court threw out his conviction and death sentence, has died. He was 56. Flowers’ family confirmed that he died on Wednesday at his home in Mississippi , attorney Rob McDuff told the Associated Press on Thursday.

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