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Overturned

Curtis Flowers

Year
1996
Where
Mississippi
Source
Wikipedia
Evidence
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What the record says

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…

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